Linderniella wilmsii (Engl.) Eb. Fisch., Schäferh. & Kai Müll.

wilmsii: named after Dr. Friedrich Heinrich Wilms (1848-1919), German apothecary, botanist and plant collector in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga.

Small erect annual, 2.5-7 cm high. Stem 4-angled, simple or branched near the base, mostly hairless. Leaves often in a basal rosette, linear- spathulate, 4-7 mm long minutely pubescent; leaves along the stem opposite, 1.5-5 mm long, narrowly elliptic, mostly hairless; margin entire. Flowers solitary, axillary. Pedicel slender, up to 10 mm long. Calyx mostly 3-4 mm long, hairles or minutely pubescent; lobes 0.5-1.2 mm long. Corolla blue and white, 5-8 mm long; upper lip bifid; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 2. Capsule elliptic-ovate, 3.5-6 mm long.

Angola, DRC, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.