Hermannia joubertiana

Hermannia joubertiana is a sparsely branched, erect shrublet growing wand-like and somewhat spreading stems to heights from 30 cm to 90 cm. 

Some of the older flowers have curved, dark red sepal lobes. The young flowers have straighter green sepal lobes around the flaring corollas. There are clockwise as well as anticlockwise twisting corollas present in the photo.

The species is distributed along the Wester Cape southern coast from Hermanus and Caledon to Mossel Bay. This plant was seen in Fernkloof at the beginning of November, one of the about eight Hermannia species occurring there.

The habitat is sandy soil, Overberg dune strandveld and Agulhas limestone fynbos. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Privett and Lutzeyer, 2010; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; JSTOR; http://redlist.sanbi.org).