[2][3] Rudolf Schlechter,[4] the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the region where the sample he examined was collected in South Africa.

Its flowers have 5 hairless, oblong to lance-shaped sepals that are 3.8 by 1.7 millimeters with pointed tips.

Its corona have 5 free, oval to diamond-shaped, fleshy lobes that are 0.3–1.3 millimeters long and attached half-way up the petal tubes.

The stamen have rudimentary filaments and oval anthers that are 1.3 millimeters long with tapering tips.

Its slightly bumpy, slender, cylindrical, fruit are 10.2–21.6 by 0.3–1.3 centimeters with tapering tips.