See text Bruniaceae is a family of shrubs native to the cape region of South Africa.

They are mostly restricted to the Cape Province, but a small number of species occur in KwaZulu-Natal.

They have small, hard, scaly leaves that are alternate but regularly set and overlapping.

The inflorescence is a dense spike or spherical flowerhead with up to 400 flowers at the end of the stems.

[3] In the APG II taxonomy they are placed in the order Lamiales,[4] but a 2008 study suggested that they are sister to the Columelliaceae,[5] and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website proposes incorporating this finding by placing both families in order Bruniales.