Anthospermum ericifolium Kuntze

Dwarf shrub, ('bisexual'), ('female'), seldom ('bisexual') ± ('male') or ('male'), few-to many-stemmed, ± erect. Stems (150-)250-400(-600) mm long, sparsely to much branched, branches ± erect or ascending, densely leafy above. Leaves decussate, pseudoverticillate; blades ascending to erect, 4-7 x (0.6-)0.8-1.2(-1.4) mm, linear-lanceolate, often broadly triangular and shallowly concave above in section; margins, at least lower half, with white spreading hairs c. 0.3-0.4 mm long, upper surface and midrib below often reddish brown; petioles 0; stipular sheath with or without a minute seta. Flowers subsessile, in clusters of (2-)6-10(-14)at nodes; corolla 5-merous, yellowish(?), with white spreading hairs c. 0.2-0.3 mm long at least near tip ('bisexual'), (('male') tube 0.7-1 mm long, (narrowly) funnel-shaped to ± cylindrical, lobes, 1.2-1.7 x 0.5-O,8(-1) mm; anthers 1-1.2 mm long: ('male'): rudimentary ovary minute, hardly discernible; ('bisexual'): gynoecium as in('female') ('female'): tube c.-0.2 mm long, lobes 0.4-0.6 x 0.1-0.2 mm; style 0; stigma one, 3-7 mm long; ovary with only one fertile carpel, c. 1-1.3 x 0.5-0.8 mm, densely hairy; reduced carpel with 2, fertile carpel with 3 calyx lobes. Fruit greyish brown to greyish; fertile mericarp(2.5-)2.8-3.5(-4) x (1-)1.3-1.8 mm, ± ovate to oblong, often curved lengthwise, densely covered with straight white hairs 0.4-0.6 mm long; reduced carpel ± strap-like, 2.5-3.5 x 0.5-0.7 mm; fertile carpel with 3 triangular-lanceolate calyx lobes 0.3-0.7(-1) x 0.2-0.4 mm, reduced carpel with 2 sometimes marginally larger ones.