Nemesia bicornis

Nemesia bicornis, sometimes called the twohorn lionface, in Afrikaans the leeubekkie (snapdragon or little lion maw) and also kappieblommetjie (little bonnet flower), is a sparsely hairy annual that branches loosely in its upper part and reaches 80 cm in height.

The simple, opposite leaves are stalkless, narrowly lanceolate to sometimes ovate with sunken midribs and toothed or lobed margins.

The species distribution is mostly coastal, found to the west of Stilbaai in the Western Cape but also inland in the Little Karoo and in the southwest of coastal Namaqualand in the Northern Cape. The photo was taken southwest of Oudtshoorn on the Minwater farm.

The habitat is coastal sand and sandy renosterveld. The species is not considered threatened in habitat early in the twenty first century (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; Le Roux, et al, 2005; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).