Euchaetis esterhuyseniae I.Williams

Shrubs 0.6 m tall, 2 m diam., with many branches spreading from the base at ground level, forming a dense wiry shrub; wood yellow in colour. Branches numerous, spreading, rigid, fairly slender, flexuose, often dichotomous; bark rough, grey. Branchlets short, slender, erect, dichotomous or single by abortion, reddened, thinly puberulous, not hidden by the leaves. Leaves 2.2-3.2 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, ovate, apex sacculate when dry, obtuse with a blunt sometimes reddened callus, fleshy, glabrous, sessile, spreading, alternate; margins thick, narrowly translucent, minutely serrulate; abaxial surface gland-dotted to either side of the midrib. Inflorescence terminal, 3.3 mm diam., flowers white, sessile in reduced racemes, the uppermost being the latest to bloom. Bract 1.5-2.8 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, elliptic, obtuse, red-callused, fleshy, glabrous, sparingly gland-dotted, margins minutely serrulate. Bracteoles two, 1-1.3 mm long, 0.6-0.8 mm broad, elliptic, obtuse, red-callused, glabrous, sparingly gland-dotted, margins translucent, ciliolate. Calyx lobes five, 1.5-1.8 mm long, 1-1.4 mm broad, oblong, obtuse, red-callused, sparingly gland-dotted, margins minutely serrulate above, translucent and ciliolate below, adaxial surface pubescent. Petals five, 2.5-3 mm long, white, at first erect, later spreading slightly and readily falling away; blade 1.2 mm long, 1.1 mm broad, elliptic, obtuse; claw 1.8 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, narrowing to the base, transversely bearded above with strong thick hairs, margins sparsely ciliate, midrib villous. Staminodes five, vestigial, 0.1-0.2 mm long, on the outer edge of the disc. Filaments five, becoming 1.2 mm long, glabrous, subulate. Anthers five, 1 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, wine-coloured, apical gland 2 mm diam., pale, globose, inclined inwards. Pollen 45 µ long, 23 µ broad, oblong. Disc equalling or slightly exceeding the ovary, erect and level all round, wine-coloured, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.2 mm diam., capitellate, globose, green. Style at first deflexed becoming erect, 1.2 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.6 mm diam., glabrous. Fruit 5-carpellate, 7.5 mm long, 6.5 mm diam., glabrous, shining, wine-coloured, with many gland dots; horns 1.5 mm long, darker in colour with an immersed apical gland. Seed 4.7 mm long, 2-2.2 mm broad, black, shining; endosperm not conspicuous.