Acmadenia latifolia I.Williams

Shrubs 0.3-0.6 m tall, with few branches rising from a single stem at base. Branches short, rather lax, variously bent, glabrescent; bark dark brown, rough with leaf scars. Branchlets short, fairly erect, few, densely pubescent, reddish, well clothed with leaves. Leaves 2.5-3.5 mm long, 4 mm broad if pressed flat, lanceolate-elliptic, sub-acute, mucronate, complicate, sessile, opposite, decussate, sub-imbricate, erect; margins villous-ciliate mainly below, narrowly cartilaginous; adaxial surface glabrous, deeply grooved; abaxial surface prominently ribbed with gland dots scattered to either side. Inflorescence at first terminal then, on the same twig, crowded in three opposite pairs in the uppermost axils of the leaves; flowers 21 mm diam., solitary, sessile, pink. Bracts 2 pairs, varying in size depending on whether the flower is terminal or axial, 3.1-13 mm long, 1.3-2.5 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, ciliolate; adaxially pubescent except for the posterior bract; abaxially glabrous to thinly puberulous; anterior bract gland-dotted and green towards.the midrib above. Bracteoles two, 5.9-8.5 mm long, 2.5-2.8 mm broad, narrowing to the apex, acute, crisped ciliate mainly above, glabrous; midrib prominent, multicoloured, gland-dotted above; margins translucent below. Calyx lobes five, 8.0-9.5 mm long, 2.5-3.0 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, apex recurved, margins ciliate, densely so above; adaxial surface minutely puberulous mainly above; abaxial surface glabrous, gland-dotted and purplish above. Petals five, 18-19 mm long overall, soon falling; limb 10 mm long, 6.0-6.8 mm broad, broadly lanceolate, acute, glabrous, pink, spreading, abaxially gland-dotted, apex with a few hairs; claw bulged inwards at the throat, 7.5-8.0 mm long, 2.0-2.3 mm broad above narrowing below, glabrous, gland-dotted to either side, very sparsely ciliolate. Staminodes five, 1 mm long, 0.3 mm broad, pale, glabrous, tapering to a small pointed gland at the apex. Filaments five, becoming 1.5-2.3 mm long, subulate, glabrous. Anthers five, before anthesis 2.3 mm long, 0.9 mm broad, yellow with a minute (0.1-0.15 mm long) pointed apical gland inclined inwards. Pollen 56 µ long, 30 µ, broad, oblong. Disc closes over the ovary at first touching the stigma, green, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.6 mm diam., depressed, globose, 5-lobed. Style becoming nearly 2 mm long, glabrous, erect, persisting. Ovary 5-carpellate, 1.3 mm long, 1.2 mm diam., glabrous, apices emarginate. Fruit 5-carpellate, 6.8-7 mm long. 5-5.7 mm diam., pale, glabrous below, margins gland-dotted, sparsely pubescent, closely surrounded by the persistent calyx lobes; horns 1.5 mm long, sparsely and minutely setulose, emarginate. Seed 4.5 mm long, 1.8 mm broad, black, shining; aril pale, partly light brown.