Origin and Habitat: Joubertina, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Habitat: Grows in grassland with Acacia-schrub, rain at all seasons.

• Marlothistella stenophylla (L. Bolus) S.A.Hammer
• Mesembryanthemum stenophyllum L. Bolus
• Ruschia stenophylla (L. Bolus) L. Bolus ex Fourc.

Description: It is a perennial sub-tuberous shrubby species with thin fingerlike leaves.
Root: Turnip-like, fleshy.
Leaves: Trigonous to more or less half-cylindrical, acuminate smooth, punctate, only 2-3 mm broad and thick up to 50 mm long.
Flowers: Up to 35 mm in diameter. Petals pinkish-purple 16 mm long.
Fruit: 5-locular.