Amyema preissii Tiegh.

Plant erect or spreading, glabrous; epicortical runners absent. Leaves terete, acute or the thicker ones rounded, 2-8 cm long, 0.5-2.3 mm diam. Inflorescence a pedunculate umbel of triads, the central flower sessile, the laterals pedicellate; peduncle slender, 6-26 mm long; rays of umbel 2, rarely 3, 3-13 mm long; pedicels 4-10 mm long; bracts 1.5-2 mm long, acute or rounded. Calyx entire, 0.2 mm long. Corolla in mature bud slender in middle, 18-26 mm long, 4-or 5-merous, distinctly clavate, red. Anthers usually 3.5-5 mm long, equal to free part of filament. Fruit globose, 8-10 mm diam., white or pink.

A tropical plant. It grows on Acacia and Casuarina species. It grows from tropical to temperate places. It can grow in arid places.