Diosma recurva Cham

Shrubs 0.7-1 m tall, single-stemmed at base, pale green in appearance. Branches erect, forked; bark grey, fairly smooth. Branchlets erect, numerous, slender, yellowish-green, thinly puberulous, leafy. Leaves up to 3.5 mm long, 2 mm broad, elliptic, obtuse, glabrous, alternate, 5-ranked, short-petiolate, spreading, slightly reflexed; apex with an immersed gland; margins gland-dotted, very sparsely and minutely ciliolate mainly below; adaxial surface dark green, smooth, fairly flat; abaxial surface gland-dotted along the midrib. Inflorescence solitary in terminal and sub-terminal clusters, sessile on very short branchlets. Bract one, about 1.5-1.75 mm long, 1-1.4 mm broad, deltoid, obtuse, ciliolate; adaxial surface concave, slightly pubescent below; abaxial surface thinly puberulous below; midrib raised, gland-dotted. Bracteoles two, 1.2-2 mm long, 0.75-1 mm broad, elliptic, obtuse, ciliolate; adaxial surface concave, puberulous in the hollow; abaxial surface sparsely puberulous below, gland-dotted along the midrib. Calyx lobes five, 1.5 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, oblong-deltoid, obtuse, ciliolate; adaxial surface flat, puberulous; abaxial surface sparsely puberulous below, gland-dotted along the midrib. Petals five, 2-2.3 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, ovate or sub-quadrangular, obtuse, very sparsely ciliolate, white, glabrous, somewhat connate with the disc; abaxial surface gland-dotted towards the midrib. Staminodes five, 0.2-0.3 mm long, glandular at the apex, arising towards the outer edge on the summits of the disc. Filaments five, becoming 1.8 mm long, acicular, glabrous. Anthers five, before anthesis 0.8 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, yellow or reddish tinged with orange; apical gland globose, pointing inwards. Pollen 53 µ long, 25 µ broad, obloid. Disc 5-lobed, 2 mm diam., double the height of the ovary, forming a cup, edges thickened, nectariferous, olive green. Stigma 0.15 mm diam., globose, capitellate. Style may be deflexed at some stage becoming erect, 1.6 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.9 mm long, 0.8 mm diam., lobes obtuse, glabrous, green. Fruit 5-carpellate, each carpel 6-9 mm long with horn 2-4 mm long, glabrous, gland-dotted. Seed 5-8 mm long overall, 2-3 mm broad, black, shining; aril white.