Austin, D.F. and Shahina Ghazanfar (1979). 126: 1-64
Plants subshrubs to about 30 cm tall, the stems arising from a woody base; young stems with silky, grey pubescence. Leaves shortly petiolate; blades rigid, 4-27 mm long, elliptic, silky grey pubescent, bases and tips rounded. Flowers solitary, subsessile in the leaf-axils or aggregated at the ends of branches; sepals unequal, ovate, acute or acuminate, 4-5 mm long, silvery pubesent; corollas 4-5 mm long, Fruits capsules, 2-3 mm long, ovoid, hairy distally; seeds ovoid, 1.5-2 mm long, black, glabrous.
Seddera latifolia grows from East Africa through the Arabian Peninsula to Pakistan and India.