Compilation
Triumfetta ruhengerensis

Shrub (0.5–)1–3 m high; stems erect, 3.5–7 mm diameter, thickly covered in a pale brown downy tomentum of largely stellate hairs (easily scraped away by a fingernail). Leaves usually discolorous, oblong to ovate, the lowest slightly 3-lobed, 5.5–12.5 cm long, 2.5–9.5 cm wide, apex acute to subacuminate, central lobe ± 3 cm long, lateral lobes ± 0.5 cm long if present, base cordate to obtuse, margin 2-serrate, rarely crenate, densely covered beneath in a soft tomentose down of white stellate hairs, the hairs sparse above and with fewer and shorter arms; petiole terete, 0.9–4.5 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, indumentum as stem; stipules persistent, dark brown, narrowly triangular, 6–7 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide. Inflorescence terminal, branches sparse, 10–22 cm long, lower nodes with slightly reduced, unlobed leaves, nodes 0.7–3.2 cmapart, each with 6–10 leaf-opposed cymes, cymes (1–)3-flowered; peduncle 3–4 mm long, indumentum as stem; bracts very narrowly ovate, 1.5–3.5 mm long, 0.25–0.5 mm wide; pedicels 1.5–2 mm long. Sepals narrowly lanceolate to oblong, slightly pandurate, 5–7(–10) mm long, 1 mm wide, densely grey stellate-hairy, apical spines 0.25 mm long. Petals rounded-oblong, 4–5(–8.5) mm long, 0.7–1.5(–3.0) mm wide, basal 0.75(–2) mm of the claw fringed with hairs, pubescent; stamens 9–12; ovary subvillose. Fruit dehiscent, subglobose, (6.5–)9–15(–17) mm in diameter, with 96–140 patent dark brown bristles 2–7 mm long, each very sparingly to densely covered in soft, white simple hairs, the apex straight to curved, but not hooked, with a single, often inclined, terminal hair. Fig. 14/11–13 (p. 88).