Acmadenia maculata I.Williams

Shrubs 0.5 m tall, slender, single-stemmed at base. Branches short, slender, glabrescent, variously bent. Branchlets short, slender, minutely puberulous, erect, not hidden by the leaves. Leaves 5.5-6.3 mm long overall, 1.5-1.7 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, red-mucronate, alternate, spreading; margins thick, sparsely ciliolate, sub-scabrid; adaxial surface minutely dotted with black-stalked glands; abaxial surface with scattered gland dots and sparsely puberulous along the midrib; petiole 0.6 mm long, puberulous. Inflorescence 8 mm diam., pink, solitary, terminal, sessile. Bract 4 mm long, 1.2 mm broad below, lanceolate-subulate, red-mucronate; margins ciliate, broadened and translucent below; adaxial surface sparsely pubescent in the middle below with minute black raised glands. Bracteoles two, 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, ovate-subulate, red-mucronate, minutely gland-dotted near the apex; margins broadly translucent, ciliolate; adaxial surface with minute black raised glands. Calyx lobes five, 3.5 mm long, 1.5-1.8 mm broad, ovate, acute, red-mucronate; margins ciliolate, broadly translucent; adaxially pubescent; abaxially glabrous with the midrib coloured and more prominent towards the apex. Petals five, 6.5 mm long overall, bulged inwards at the throat; limb 3 mm long, 0.8-3.0 mm broad, sub-orbicular, apiculate, glabrous, pink, spreading, very sparsely ciliolate, upper surface with about 4 minute raised glands up the middle; claw 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, pubescent above, ciliate. Staminodes five, 0.6 mm long, terete, glabrous, apex glandular. Filaments five, becoming 1.6 mm long, subulate, glabrous, erect. Anthers five, before anthesis 1.2 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, yellow; apical gland 0,012 mm diam., semi-immersed. Pollen 51 µ long, 34µ broad, sub-quadrangular or oblong with parallel sides. Disc obvallate, exceeds the ovary, green, fairly level on top, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.7 mm diam., depressed globose, green, sticky. Style becoming 1 mm long, erect, glabrous. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.7 mm long, 0.8 mm diam., glabrous; apices globose. Fruit and seed not seen. An old fruit that had cast its seed (from Williams 3032) was found to be 8 mm long including the horns about 1.5 mm long, 5 mm. diam., minutely and sparsely puberulous above.