Acmadenia kiwanensis I.Williams

Shrubs 300-500 mm tall, single stemmed at base. Branches fairly numerous, almost sprawling (perhaps due to trampling by cattle), greyish-brown, glabrous. Branchlets fairly numerous, erect, somewhat clustered, not hidden by the leaves, at first densely clothed with short white erect hairs. Leaves 7-14 mm long including the petiole 1-1.5 mm long, 2.2-1.5 mm broad, the longest being narrower, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute, 5-ranked, alternate, spreading, uppermost erect at first; apex pale minutely bristly; margins scabrid, at first ciliolate becoming virtually eciliate; abaxial surface with gland dots small and numerous scattered between midrib and margins, pubescent with short erect hairs mainly towards the margins and midrib. Inflorescence solitary, terminal, 10 mm diam., pink, subtended by several bract-like leaves. Bract 4 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, oblong, acute, glabrous or puberulous, petiolate. Bracteoles two, 3.5 mm long, 2 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, puberulous above, ciliate, broadly translucent below. Calyx lobes five, 3.5 mm long, 2 mm broad, ovate-lanceolate, puberulous above; apex acute green, elevated; margins ciliate, broadly translucent and villous ciliate below; adaxial surface pubescent in the middle. Petals five, 6 mm long overall; limb 2.5 mm broad, obovate, apiculate, glabrous, pink, spreading; claw 3 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, narrowing to the base, pubescent and bulged inwards at the throat. Staminodes five, 1 mm long, erect, glabrous, gland-tipped. Filaments five, becoming 2.5 mm long erect, glabrous, acicular. Anthers five, 1.5 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, greenish-yellow, apical gland pointed and minute. Pollen 40 µ long, 33 µ broad, broadly elliptic. Disc fleshy, green, erect, just exceeding the ovary. Stigma 0.7 mm diam., green, capitate. Style becoming 2 mm long, glabrous, ever-erect. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.8 mm diam., somewhat pubescent at the sides of the carpels. Fruit 5-carpellate, 6.5 mm long, 4.5 mm diam.; carpels green, minutely gland-dotted, short-pubescent mainly at the sides; horns 1.5 mm long, erect, apex cleft adaxially. Seed 4.5 mm long, 1.9 mm diam., black, shining, endosperm black-covered.