Pteronia elongata

Pteronia elongata is a much-branched shrublet reaching heights around 15 cm.

The species distribution is in the Western Cape, mainly the southern Cape and the Little Karoo, extending eastwards to the west of the Eastern Cape as far as Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth). The photo was taken on the Minwater farm near Oudtshoorn.

The habitat is renosterveld slopes and flats. The species is not considered threatened in habitat early in the twenty first century (Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; JSTOR; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).