Anthospermum hispidulum E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond.

Dwarf shrub, 'bisexual', 'bisexual' + 'female', 'female', 'bisexual' + 'male' or (rarely) 'male', usually several-to many-stemmed, often with thick, woody (tap-)root. Stems c. (100-)150-400(-600) mm long, ascending to erect, sparingly to much branched, branches ascending to ± erect, hairy. Leaves decussate, usually pseudoverticillate; blades often ascending, 5-12(-20) x 1-3.5(-5) mm, oblanceolate, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, less commonly ± obovate, usually both surfaces densely covered with whitish spreading hairs c. (0.1-)0.3-0.5 mm long, sometimes less hairy below except for midrib; margins mostly revolute; petioles subobsolete; stipular sheath hairy, with a seta (0.5-)0.8-1.4 mm long. Flowers subsessile, in clusters of c. (9-)6-2 at nodes; corolla 4-merous (very rarely also 5-merous in 'bisexual'), greenish yellow to yellowish, at least lobes hairy on outside. 'Bisexual', 'male': tube 1.4-1.6 mm ('male') or 2(-2.4) mm ('bisexual') long, (narrowly) funnel-shaped, lobes (1.7-)2-2.7 x 0.6-0.9 mm; anthers 1.4-1.9 mm long; 'bisexual': stigmas 2, c. 2.9-4.1 mm long, ovary c. 0.7-1.2 x 0.5-0.9 mm, hairy, with 4 calyx lobes; 'male': small rudimentary ovary, sometimes also rudimentary stigmas present. 'Female': tube 0.3-0.7 mm long, lobes 0.2-0.7 x 0.1-0.4 mm; style ±0-0.8 mm long; stigmas 2, 3-6.5 mm long; ovary as in 'bisexual'. Fruit reddish brown; mericarps c. 1.7-2 x 0.7-1 mm, ± oblong, ± densely (less commonly ± sparsely) covered with whitish spreading hairs c. 0.2-0.5 mm long, with 2 often hairy, ± triangular calyx lobes c. (0.2-)0.4-0.7(-0.9) x 0.1-0.3(-0.4) mm.