Acmadenia heterophylla R.Glover

Shrubs up to 0.4 m tall, dense, single-stemmed at base, often grazed right down. Branches short, tough, variously bent, with a rough greyish-brown bark. Branchlets slender, erect, some very short, reddish, puberulous. Leaves varying, 0.8 mm long and 1.4 mm broad to 4.5 mm long and 3.4 mm broad, longer leaves being narrower, linear-elliptic, elliptic, sub-complicate, short-petiolate, spreading or spreading-erect, often imbricate, opposite, decussate or alternate, adaxially glabrous, abaxially glabrous or sparsely spiky-pubescent, gland-dotted mainly towards the midrib and margins; apex trigonal, acute, mucronate or obtuse; midrib prominent, very sparsely pubescent; margins scabrid or sparsely spiky-ciliate mainly below. Inflorescence solitary, terminal, 9 mm diam., pink; petals recurved. Bract leaf-like, petiolate. Bracteoles two, 3 mm long, 1.4 mm broad, oblong, apiculate, obtuse, glabrous; margins below broadly translucent, ciliate. Calyx lobes five, apex, 1.3 mm long, 1 mm broad, spreading, green, thick; lower part 2.5 mm long, 2.2 mm broad, ciliate, translucent at the sides. Petals five, 7.2 mm long; limb 4.7 mm long, 3.5 mm broad, ovate, obtuse with a small blunt point, sparsely gland-dotted; claw 2.5 mm long, narrowing to the base, sparsely ciliolate, sparsely pubescent at the sides at the throat. Staminodes five, 0.7-1.2 mm long, acicular, glabrous; apex glandular. Filaments five, becoming 2 mm long, linear, glabrous. Anthers five, 2.3 mm long overall, 0.8 mm broad before anthesis; apical gland 0.7 mm long, conical, sticky at the tip. Disc obvallate, exceeds the ovary by a long way, green, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.8 mm diam., globose, green. Style becoming 1.2 mm long, glabrous, erect. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.8 mm long, 0.9 mm diam., glabrous, apices faintly tri-lobed. Fruit 5-carpellate, 4.5 mm long, 3.5 mm diam., glabrous; horns 0.5 mm long, cleft at the apex. Seed 2.7 mm long, 1.3 mm diam., black, shining; aril small, black on one side.