Acmadenia teretifolia (Link) E.Phillips

Shrubs up to 0.4 m tall, dense, sprawling, with many stems arising from a stout root growing in crevices in massive T.M.S. rocks. Branches numerous, spreading, short, brown, glabrous, roughened with leaf scars. Branchlets fairly erect, slender, short, numerous, thinly puberulous. Leaves 5 mm long, 1.3-1.5 mm broad, sub-terete, obtuse, at first puberulous becoming glabrous, somewhat erect, alternate, crowded, abruptly narrowing below to a petiole 0.6 mm long; apex with an immersed callus; adaxially flattened-canaliculate; abaxially rounded, without margins or midrib, gland-dotted. Inflorescence terminal, 2-3 nate, sessile, stands open, subtended by a leaf-like bract. Bracteoles two, 2.7 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, leaf-like, ciliolate, adaxially flattened, abaxially sparsely puberulous. Calyx lobes five, 3.5 mm long, 2.3 mm broad, broadly, lanceolate, thinly puberulous, ciliate; apex obtuse, thickened, reddish; margins translucent below. Petals five, spreading, about 7.5 mm long, 3.5 mm broad, ovate, pink, apex curled inwards and sparsely puberulous abaxially, narrowing below; claw 0.7 mm wide at base, adaxially papillose, margins sparsely ciliolate. Staminodes five, small glands c. 0.2 mm diam., pointing outwards at 45°. Filaments five, 1 mm long, glabrous, acicular. Anthers five, before anthesis 1.3 mm long, 0.9 mm broad; apical gland 0.1 mm long. Pollen 42 µ long, 20 µ broad, oblong. Disc obvallate, slightly curled inwards, exceeds the ovary, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.4 mm diam., capitate. Style at first deflexed, becoming erect, 2.7 mm long, glabrous, slender. Ovary 5-carpellate, 1.2 mm diam., apices puberulous. Fruit 5-carpellate, 6.5 mm diam., globose without horns; carpels glabrous, gland-dotted; apices emarginate, sparsely puberulous. Seed 4.1 mm long, 2 mm broad, black, shining; aril black.