Carpacoce gigantea Puff

Shrub, ('bisexual') or ('female') ± erect. Stems to 0.9 m long, ± much branched, densely leafy. Leaves decussate; blades (35-)50-70(-80) x (2-)3(-7) mm, linear-lanceolate, glabrous, margins flat to slightly revolute; stipular sheath cup-shaped. Flowers solitary on short lateral branches, mostly hidden amongst foliage, pedicels to 4 mm long; calyx 3-merous, lobes (6-)8-12 mm long, ± erect, sometimes ± unequal in size; corolla 5(-6)-merous ('bisexual'): tube 4-5.5 mm long, lobes 4-4.5 x 0.7-1 mm; anthers 3-3.5 mm long ('female'): tube 2.5 mm long, lobes 0.7 x 0.1-0.2 mm; stigma 1, c. 10-15 mm long; ovary 2-2.5 mm long. Fruit grey, 2.5-5 x 1.2-2 mm, ± ellipsoidal to cylindrical, 1-seeded; diaspore (2-)2.5-3 x 1.5 mm, greyish to black, elliptic to ± rectangular in outline, rugose.