Euchaetis avisylvana I.Williams

Shrubs 1 m tall, branching from near the base into a diffuse bush spreading about 1 m diam. Branches numerous, slender, fairly straight, di-trichotomous, glabrous, brown with the pale outer skin splitting off, smooth but for the small leaf scars. Branchlets erect, slender, straight, glabrous, pale green, well clothed with leaves. Leaves 11-14 mm long, 1.2-1.4 mm broad, linear-lanceolate, glabrous, erect, sub-imbricate alternate; apex acute, incurved, mucronate with a few minute hairs; margins villous-ciliate and narrowly cartilaginous; adaxial surface somewhat concave; abaxial surface with a row of gland dots on either side of the midrib; narrowed at the base to a short yellowish petiole. Inflorescence terminal, up to 9 florets crowded together on short branchlets or pedicels, the most advanced being nearest to the apex of the main axis. Bract one to each flower, 7 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, incurved, tipped with three minute hairs, margins ciliate above, narrowly translucent below, gland-dotted to either side of the midrib, sub-sessile. Bracteoles two, 4.2-4.5 mm long, 1 mm broad, narrowing evenly to the apex, lanceolate, acute, glabrous, tipped with one or two minute hairs, margins eciliate and narrowly translucent, sparsely gland-dotted, sessile. Calyx lobes five, 5 mm long, 1.5-1.8 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, glabrous, eciliate, white, erect, petaloid, persisting, with about 5 indistinct gland dots. Petals five, 5 mm long; limb about 2.5 mm long, 1.1 mm broad, glabrous, lanceolate-acute, recurved, sub-apiculate; claw about 2.5 mm long, 1.4 mm broad, ovate, strongly transversely bearded across the top, margins crisped ciliate, delapsing soon after anthesis. Staminodes five, 0.1 mm diam., a vestigial hemispherical lump on the perimeter of the disc. Filaments five, becoming 1.3 mm long, glabrous, acicular. Anthers five, 1 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, wine coloured with a small globose apical gland. Pollen ±43 µ, ±21 µ broad, oblong. Disc 5-sinuo-crenulate, more or less erect around the ovary exceeding it somewhat, pale green, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.25 mm diam., capitellate, pale green. Style deflexed at first, becoming 1 mm long, erect, glabrous. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.7 mm long, 0.8 mm diam., glabrous with the carpels leaning inward towards the apex. Fruit (from Williams 2071) 5-carpellate, 7 mm long, 6 mm diam., glabrous, smooth, indistinctly gland-dotted, pink tinged below; horns very short, 1-1.5 mm long, fairly erect, purple tipped. Seed 4.6 mm long, 2.4 mm broad, black, shining; aril much reduced, black.