Chamarea esterhuyseniae B.L.Burtt

Herb, glabrous, leafless at flowering; roots not known. Leaves all radical, ternate, the segments bipinnate, the ultimate pinnae of earliest leaves more or less trilobed each lobe with 3-5 coarse sharp teeth, the later leaves with the ultimate pinnae more finely cut. Flowering stem up to 50 cm high, simple below, branched in upper part the branches usually bearing a single terminal compound umbel, rarely a single simple umbel; branches subtended by lanceolate leaf-sheaths 45 mm long, the lower part of the stem with 3-4 sterile sheaths; main stem ending in a compound umbel. Umbel with involucre of 5-6 lanceolate acuminate bracts, 5-6 rayed; rays unequal, 1.5-6 cm long; primary umbel with a few scattered male flowers, secondary lateral umbels often only 3-rayed and wholly male. Pedicels 2 mm. Sepals 0.5 mm long, acute. Petals 1.5 mm long (excluding the inflexed finely acuminate tip) x 0.75 mm. Filaments 2 mm long, attenuate to fine point. Anthers 0.75 x 0.5 mm. Stylopodia broadly conical (shallowly domed in male flowers), passing into divergent styles 0.75 mm long (styles absent in male flower). Fruit 3.75^4 mm long, excluding stylopodium; mericarps slightly heteromorphic; one equally 5-ribbed, the two dorso-lateral ribs sepaline, the other with the lateral and dorsal ribs sepaline and slightly more strongly developed; commissure bivittate, valleculae univittate; seed not protruding into stylopodial dome.