Amphithalea axillaris Granby

Straggling, virgate shrub up to 90 cm tall. Branches erect to suberect, partly aphyllous with cicatrices from fallen leaves. Branchlets suberect or patently incurved. Leaves scattered or crowded 3 below the lateral inflorescences, lanceolate, 7.5-11.5 x 1.8-3.2 mm, acute, sericeous, margins slightly recurved. Inflorescences 1-2-flowered, axillary, dispersed over a distance of up to 20 cm, sessile or subsessile. Pedicel short 0.4-0.9 mm. Bract narrow lanceolate, acute, 1.8-5.0 x 0.3-0.6 mm, sericeous. Calyx 4.5-6.0 mm, sericeous, the receptacle 0.5-0.8 mm; calyx lobes narrow triangular; lower lobes 2.3-3.3 mm; upper lobes medially fused to 1.0-1.8 mm from their apices. Vexillum lamina light pink, elliptic, deeply cleft, 5.0-8.0 x 4.0-6.5 mm; claw 1.5-2.5 mm. Ala blades light pink, obliquely oblong, 4.2-6.7 x 1.4-3.0 mm; claws 2.3-3.2 mm. Carina blades purple, cymbiform, 3.2-3.8 x 1.3-1.9 mm with a prominent spur; claws 2.3-3.5 mm. Stamens 5.5-7.0 mm, connate basally for 2.3-4.2 mm; anthers unequal 0.3-0.6 mm. Pistil 5.5-7.0 mm, uni-ovulate; ovary sericeous; style glabrous on most part, curved at the apex. Pod small ca. 5.5-6.0 x 3.5 mm, sericeous, one-seeded.