Arnhemia cryptantha Airy Shaw

Undershrub usually prostrate or nearly so. Stems to 0.45 m long, simple or branched, usually slender, densely hairy. Leaves alternate or sometimes subopposite, narrowly elliptic to almost elliptic, moderately or sparsely hairy on adaxial surface, densely hairy abaxially, discolorous; lamina 5–35 mm long; petiole to 2 mm long. Sepals ovate, 4–5 mm long, densely hairy outside, glabrous inside except at apex; hairs on inside deep red, most others white. Stamens 12 or 13, 3–4 mm long, persistent, red. Style c. 1 mm long, persistent in fruit; stigma red. Capsule ovoid, 9–10 mm long, usually 5-lobed, densely hairy, green. Seeds laterally compressed, 6–8 mm long, hairy.

Recorded mainly in sandy soil, often with lateritic rocks or gravel, in open woodland.