Shrub to 2 (–3) m high, soft-wooded, much-branched, compact. Leaves: petiole 2–15 mm long, slender, with pale, appressed, strigose hairs; lamina broadly elliptic to ovate or rhomboidal, (40–) 50–120 mm long, (11–) 18–62 mm wide, distinctly fleshy, subcoriaceous, with base cuneate to attenuate onto petiole, margin thickened, undulose, apex acuminate; bronze-green above, dull bronze-green sometimes tinged purple below, glabrescent, with appressed hairs on midrib beneath. Inflorescence a terminal spike on side branches, (0.5–) 1–2 (–3) cm long, pilose; peduncle 1–3 mm long; bracts narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 3.4–4 mm long, with margin entire, becoming erose with age; vein extrudes as falcate spinescent tip, 4–6 mm long. Bracteoles narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 4.5–4.8 mm long, with falcate spinescent tip to 6 mm long; margins similar to bracts. Tepals 4, 5–6 mm long, 1.6–1.8 mm wide, equal; margins glabrous. Stamens 4; filaments 0.5–1.2 mm long; pseudostaminodes rectangular, 0.6–0.8 mm high, with apex covered by fimbriate appendage, 0.2–0.3 mm long. Style 1.7–2 mm long. Fruit an indehiscent utricle, turbinate, 0.7–1.2 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide. Seed ovoid, 0.5–1 mm long, 0.9–1.4 mm wide, dark chestnut-brown, smooth with round cells.
Known from a single site, at 180 m altitude on a steep, rubble-strewn hillside in association with Phormium aff. tenax under White Oak Lagunaria patersonii.
Home