Lessertia perennans striped flowers

The Lessertia perennans flowers start off as deep pink buds, the open flowers pale pink. The cup-shaped, hairy calyces have slightly uneven sepal lobes. In the corollas the banner petals are biggest, pale with pink vein lines, the wing petals deeper pink, shielding the keel. Old flowers are blue-purple. A flower is about 6 mm in diameter.

The fruits are obliquely elliptic, flat pods or legumes. They become papery as they ripen, opening at their tips and releasing rough-textured seeds (Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; Trauseld, 1969; iNaturalist; https://pza.sanbi.org).