Jatropha schlechteri subsp. setifera (Hutch.) Radcl.-Sm.

Perennial herb, up to c. 40 cm, growing from a stout reddish fleshy rootstock. Leaves up to c. 15 × 10 cm, distinctly blue-grey, irregularly deeply pinnately lobed, almost hairless above, hairy below; margin, irregularly tooted. Inflorescences terminal, up to 15 cm long, laxly and shortly branched. Flowers unisexual on the same inflorescence, deep red. Fruit subcylindric, up to 12 × 10 mm, with rib-like lobes, hairless (in this subspecies).

Southern Zimbabwe and Limpopo South Africa.