Euchaetis elata Eckl. & Zeyh.

Shrubs up to 1 m tall, slender, standing somewhat above the surrounding Restionaceae, not much branched, single-stemmed at base. Branches few in number, rod-like, erect, glabrous, with a smooth grey-brown bark. Branchlets few, straight, erect, slender, glabrous, yellowish, well-clothed with leaves. Leaves 6-8 mm long, 1-1.3 mm broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, incurved-mucronate, sessile, erect, adpressed, usually not imbricate, alternate; adaxially concave above and pubescent with short bristly hairs bent towards the apex; abaxially convexo-carinate, glabrous with two rows of gland dots; hyaline margins narrow, minutely ciliolate. Inflorescence terminal without any involucre, with groups of about three sessile florets at the end of the main stem and at the ends of very short branchlets crowded together, those at the apex being the first to bloom. Bract one per floret, 2.5 mm long, 1 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, mucronate, hyaline margins ciliolate; adaxially concave, sparsely short-pubescent above; abaxially convexo-carinate, glabrous with two rows of gland dots. Bracteoles two, 2.2 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, similar to the bract. Calyx lobes five, 2.5 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, oblong, acute, with a small callus at the apex; margins ciliolate, broadly translucent becoming rolled inwards towards the apex; adaxially somewhat pubescent; abaxially glabrous with two rows of gland dots. Petals five, 3.8 mm long overall; limb 1.3 mm broad, elliptic, minutely apiculate, white, gland-dotted; claw 2 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, narrowing below, strongly transversely bearded above, ciliate. Staminodes not visible except as a round spot on the disc. Filaments five, becoming 1 mm long, subulate, glabrous. Anthers five, 0.8 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, plum-coloured; apical gland minute, inflexed. Pollen 40 µ long, 20 µ diam., oblong, surface rough-dotted. Disc exceeds the ovary, exudes nectar. Stigma capitellate, much the same diam., as the style. Style at first deflexed, becoming erect, 1.3 mm long, slender, glabrous. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.7 mm diam., glabrous, apices globose. Fruit 5-carpellate, 5.5 mm long, 5 mm diam., glabrous, smooth, gland-dotted; horns 0.5-1 mm long. Seed 3.8-4 mm long, 2 mm broad, black, shining; aril black.