Two populations are known with certainty, one in the Moeras River at Barrydale and one at the Tradouw River at Tradouw's Pass.
On 31 December 2006, she married her long-time partner Raife Burchell from the band Jetplane Landing.
Burchell came across the species a number of times between 1811 and 1814, but it seems to have reached Europe only as late as 1893 by a Mr. Max Leichtlin from Baden-Baden, and oddly in the same year by a Mr. Gumbleton, who had received seeds from a Mr. Adlam in Natal.