Anthospermum dregei Sond.

Dwarf shrub, 'male', ('female' + 'male'), ('female' + 'male' ) + 'female' or 'female', manystemmed, diffusely to ± regularly branched, often ± rounded. Stems c. 150-400 mm long, branches ± irregular (especially if browsed), often divaricate. Leaves decussate, sometimes ± pseudoverticillate; blades 4-14(-20) x 1.0-4.0(-4.5) mm, ± ovate, oblong-lanceolate to ± lanceolate, ± membranaceous to thickish, glabrous or with a few papillae on margins, upper and/or lower surface; upper surface sometimes distinctly purplish brown, lower surface (light) green; margins ± revolute, convoluted rolled or ± flat; petioles ±0-1 mm long; stipular sheath with or without a minute seta. Flowers subsessile (only in 2 pedicels occasionally to 1 mm long), in clusters of 2-6 at nodes; corolla 4-merous (in 2 occasionally also 5-merous), greenish yellow to creamy yellow or reddish purple, at least outside, sometimes papillate, 'male', ('female' + 'male'): buds 2.5-4 mm long; tube 0.7-1.4(-1.8) mm long, (narrowly) funnel-shaped to ± cylindrical, lobes 1.5-3.2 x 0.5-1.2 mm; anthers 1.3-2.8 mm long; ('female' + 'male' ): stigmas 2, c. 1-3 mm long, greyish white, ovary c. 0.7-1.5 x 0.5-1 mm, often with 4 indistinct calyx lobes; 'male': small rudimentary ovary present. 'Female': tube ±0 or 0.1-0.7 mm long, lobes 0.2-1.3(-2.0) x 0.1-0.5 mm; style 0-0.7 mm long, stigmas 2, (2.5-)3.0-8.5 mm long, greyish white or (seldom) reddish purplish; ovary as in 2 or somewhat larger. Fruit reddish brown, shiny; mericarps (1.5-)1.8-2.7 x 0.8-1.5 mm, ± oblong, glabrous or with a few papillae, mostly with 2 indistinct ± triangular calyx lobes to c. 0.2-0.3 mm long.