Chaenostoma multiramosum (Hilliard) Kornhall

Dwarf shrublet becoming very twiggy and gnarled, up to c. 130-300 mm tall, branches erect or decumbent, narrowly winged or ridged, glandular-puberulous throughout including pedicels, scattered coarser glandular hairs as well up to c. 0.2-0.25 mm long, leafy throughout, brachyblasts present. Leaves opposite, largest primary leaves 9-20 x 2-4 mm, upper ones subtending flowers c. 6-18 x 1.5-4 mm, axillary leaves smaller, all narrowly elliptic, apex obtuse to subacute, base narrowed into a short petiolar part then abruptly expanded and decurrent in a narrow wing or ridge, margins plane, entire or with a pair of obscure teeth, sparsely glandular-puberulous mainly on upper surface. Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils, either opposite or becoming alternate upwards, forming leafy terminal racemes. Pedicels (lowermost) 7-20 mm long. Calyx obscurely bilabiate, tube 0.6-0.8 mm long, posticous lobes 2.5-6 x 0.4-0.7 mm, anticous pair slightly broader, glandular-puberulous, some scattered hairs up to 0.15-0.3 mm long. Corolla tube 8.5-13 x 3-4 mm in throat, narrowly funnel-shaped, limb almost regular, 9-14 mm across, posticous lobes 2.5-5.2 x 2-3.8 mm, anticous lobe 3.8-5 x 2.8-4 mm, all elliptic-oblong, pink, mauve or blue, tube yellow or orange, glandular-puberulous outside, hairs up to 0.15-0.2 mm long, no glistening glands, weakly bearded within, hairs clavate, in three longitudinal bands. Stamens 4, anthers 1-1.3 mm long, posticous filaments 1-1.2 mm long, anthers in mouth, anticous filaments 1.8-2 mm long, anthers exserted. Stigma 1-2.4 mm long, eventually exserted. Style 6.2-10.5 mm long. Ovary 1.2-1.3 x 0.8-1 mm, glabrous. Capsules c. 4.5 x 2.4 mm. Seeds c. 0.8 x 0.4 mm (few seen), pallid.