Acmadenia baileyensis I.Williams

Shrubs 0.5 m tall, single-stemmed at base. Branches fairly numerous, short, erect, glabrescent; leaf scars not prominent. Branchlets numerous, short, erect, puberulous, well clothed with leaves. Leaves 6 mm long overall, 2.3 mm broad, oblanceolate, trigonal-obtuse, glabrous, erect, imbricate, opposite, decussate, sub-complicate when dry; margins serrulate, sparsely ciliolate; petiole 0.7 mm long. Inflorescence solitary, terminal, 17 mm diam., pink. Bracts two, opposite, 4.2 mm long, 3.2 mm broad, broadly oblanceolate, obtuse, strongly keeled above, broadly translucent and ciliate below; gland dots few, indistinct. Bracteoles two, 4.8 mm long, 3.5 mm broad, broadly oblanceolate, obtuse, strongly keeled above, apex 3-angled, glabrous, gland-dotted, ciliate, broadly translucent below. Calyx lobes five, 5.0-5.6 mm long, 2.8-4.2 mm broad, broadly lanceolate, obtuse, apex keeled and recurved; abaxially glabrous, gland-dotted; adaxially pubescent about the middle; margins ciliate at the sides, broadly translucent. Petals five, 14 mm long overall; limb 8 mm broad, orbicular, gland-dotted; apex minutely glandular apiculate; margins below sparsely and minutely ciliolate; claw 6 mm long, narrowing to the base, internally pubescent, sparsely ciliolate. Staminodes five, 2.5 mm long, acicular. sparsely pubescent. Filaments five, 3.2 mm long, acicular, sparsely pubescent. Anthers five, 2.2 mm long overall including the conical apical gland 0.7 mm long. Pollen 58 µ long, 42 µ broad, elliptic. Disc obvallate, narrow, sinuate, green, exceeds the ovary. Stigma 1 mm diam., globose, green. Style 1.7 mm long, glabrous, erect. Ovary 5-carpellate, 1 mm long, 1.2 mm diam., glabrous; carpels obtuse, emarginate. Fruit and seed not seen.