Cliffortia prionota C.Whitehouse

Erect, medium to tall shrub, up to 2.5 m high, resprouting after fire and spreading clonally; only forming long branches; young stems 1.8-2.8 mm wide, completely sheathed by leaf bases. Leaves unifoliate, narrowly oblong to lanceolate, 26-49 x 4.6-8.5 mm, apex sharply long-acuminate to pungent, 1.8-3.6 mm long, margins flat or rounded, entire or with 9-42 straight teeth, 0.8-1.8 mm long; lamina 5-10-veined from base, chartaceous to rigid, 0.3-0.5 mm thick, held straight or curved upwards and towards stem, glabrous; sheath 3.9-5.5 mm long, abaxially and adaxially glabrous; stipules 3.8-6.2 mm long, free, margin smooth; petiole absent. Flowers solitary in axil of undifferentiated leaves; bracteoles hairy or not on keel, margins smooth; sepals 3; glabrous. Male flowers: bracteoles 6.8-8.7 mm long; pedicel 1.3-1.6 mm long; sepals broadly ovate, 11.5-13.5 x 4.6-7.2 mm, acute to acuminate at apex; stamens 40-50; filaments 6.2-9.7 mm long, greenish white; anthers yellow. Female flowers: bracteoles 6.4-8.4 mm long, longer than immature receptacle; sepals broadly ovate to triangular, 2.5-3.5 x 0.7-1.5 mm, erect; carpel 1; stigma 2.4-3.3 mm long, greenish white, feathery, hidden at base of leaves; immature receptacle 2.4-3.2 x 1.7-2.3 mm, glabrous, smooth. Achene medium to dark brown, glabrous; ribs rounded.