Cliffortia weimarckii C.Whitehouse

Erect shrub up to 0.9 m high, resprouting after fire and spreading clonally; densely divaricately branched, forming brachyblasts; young stems 1.1-1.5 mm wide, usually tinged reddish, densely hairy; stem hairs spreading, 0.9-1.5 mm long. Leaves trifoliate; leaflets narrowly oblong to needle-shaped, 6.2-13.4 x 0.8-1.2 mm, base contracted abruptly to form a pseudopetiolule, apex acute to acuminate, 0.1-0.2 mm long, margins inrolled abaxially, entire; lamina chartaceous to rigid, 0.1-0.3 mm thick, midrib prominent abaxially against lamina, ± straight or curved upwards and towards stem, densely greyish hairy adaxially, hairs 0.4-1.7 mm long, densely whitish hairy abaxially, hairs 0.2-0.4 mm long, sheath 2.7-3.1 mm long, abaxially hairy, adaxially densely hairy; stipules 0.2-0.4 mm long, free, margins ciliate; petiole absent. Flowers solitary at base of undifferentiated leaves; bracteoles hairy; sepals 3, densely hairy abaxially. Male flowers: bracteoles 3.6-4.0 mm long; pedicel and receptacle 0.9-1.3 mm long; sepals broadly ovate, 5.0-5.8 x 1.8-2.3 mm, acute to acuminate at apex; stamens 9-11; filaments 4.6-5.7 mm long, red; anthers brownish red. Female flowers: bracteoles 2.8-4.8 mm long, longer than immature receptacle; sepals linear, 1.5-2.9 x 0.2-0.5 mm, erect; carpel 1; stigma 4.1-6.5 mm long, red, feathery, prominent above leaves; immature receptacle 1.6-2.2 x 0.7-0.9 mm, glabrous, clearly ribbed. Achene ellipsoid, 3.2-3.7 x 1.1-1.4 mm, pale greyish brown, glabrous; ribs 11-15, rounded to acute, less than 0.1 mm wide. Flowering time: January, although probably in the neighbouring months as well.