Cliffortia cuneata

Cliffortia cuneata is a shrub growing erect branches to 2 m in height.

The unisexual flowers have no petals. The male flowers bear drooping red stamens. In the female ones there are solitary ovules inside the drooping carpels. Flowers on both genders occur on the same plant but not concurrently. Flowering happens in about the first half of spring.

The species distribution is in the south of the Western Cape from the Cape Peninsula where it has become rare, to around Riviersonderend. The photo was taken in Jonkershoek.

The habitat is lower fynbos slopes on sandstone. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century (Bean and Johns, 2005; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).