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Small flowers and very small leaves . The plants clump together into thick compact grassy mats. Writing in 'The Plantsman', Brian Mathew says: "Distribution: Lesotho, Eastern Cape (in Barkly, East district). Habitat: waterlogged peaty soil; marshy turf. 2500-3230m (8200-10,600 feet). The field notes for Hilliard and Burtt 8826 indicate that this is in places extremely common, the turf being 'in parts composed largely of small pink, red or white deflexa." In 1991 Brian Mathew showed the plant to the Joint Rock committee. The note in the proceedings says: "B. Mathew exhibeted for interest only a pot of R. deflexa, a distinct, dwarf, small-flowered, but very floriferous species, resembling a diminutive R. milloides. He noted that over several years of cultivation the plants developed rather larger flowers, but that it was still a distinct and very worthwhile species." |
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