Euchaetis albertiniana I.Williams

Shrubs 30-50 cm tall, erect, diffuse, slender, single stemmed towards the base. Branches erect, slender, dichotomous, glabrescent. Branchlets short, slender, pubescent with very short erect white hairs. Leaves 3-5 mm long, 1.2-1.7 mm broad, elliptic or lanceolate, acute, apex minutely callused, hyaline margins very narrow and ciliate with short stout hairs fairly widely spaced, sub-triangular in cross section, channelled on the inside when dry, gland dotted along either side of the midrib and with smaller glands along the margins, glabrous, sessile, adpressed, erect, decussate. Inflorescence terminal, with the flowers normally in pairs, white or pinkish, 5 mm diam. Bract one to each flower, 1.5-2 mm long, 1-1.1 mm broad, elliptic, obtuse with a minute apical callus, margins ciliolate, glabrous, gland dotted, sessile. Bracteoles two, 1.5-1.7 mm long, 0.7-1 mm broad, irregular in outline with a thick green apex, midrib gland dotted, hyaline margins broad, ciliolate, adaxial surface with a few very short bristly hairs. Calyx lobes five, 1.7-1.8 mm long, 1.7-2.1 mm broad, irregular in outline, with a thick green apex and broad ciliate hyaline margins, adaxial surface pubescent. Petals five, 3.5-4 mm long. Limb 2-2.6 mm broad, orbicular, retuse, glabrous, with a few gland dots. Claw 2 mm long, narrowing to the base, transversely bearded above with a few hairs down the midrib, ciliate. Staminodes five, 0.05-0.1 mm diam., vestigial. Filaments five, 1.5-1.9 mm long, glabrous. Anthers five, 0.8-1.2 mm long, 0.6-0.7 mm broad, orange or wine coloured, with an apical gland 3 mm long. Pollen 45-50µ long, 28µ diam., ellipsoid. Disc exceeds the ovary, green, fleshy, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.4-0.5 mm diam., globose, capitate, green, persisting. Style 1 mm long, erect, glabrous, persisting. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.8 mm long, 0.7 mm diam., each carpel with a globose gland at the apex surrounded by a few very short hairs. Fruit 5-carpellate; carpels 4.5 mm long, smooth, gland dotted, reddened on the outside; horns about 1 mm long, spreading at 45°, apices bristly, bifid with a gland. Seed 3 mm long, 1.3 mm broad, black, shining.