Euchaetis flexilis Eckl. & Zeyh.

Shrubs 0.2-0.4 m tall, slender, branching from near the base, may survive fires. Branches slender, lax, glabrous, smooth. Branchlets very slender, somewhat erect, well-clothed with leaves. Leaves 4-6 mm long, 1.5-2.3 mm broad, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, glabrous, adpressed to imbricate, opposite or alternate, sessile; apex sacculate; margins minutely ciliolate and broadly translucent; adaxial surface concave; abaxial surface rounded, conspicuously gland-dotted. Inflorescence terminal, with about 6 florets in a reduced compound raceme; flowers about 5 mm diam., white. Bract one to each flower, 2.8 mm long, 1.6 mm broad, elliptic, obtuse, glabrous; margins ciliolate, broadly translucent. Bracteoles two, 2 mm long, similar to the bract but smaller. Calyx lobes five, 2-2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, elliptic, obtuse, reddened, gland-dotted; margins ciliolate, broadly translucent. Petals five, 3.2-3.6 mm long, 1.3-1.8 mm broad, cuneate-obtuse, white, transversely bearded and ciliate in the middle, narrowing below to 0.5 mm at the base. Staminodes five, vestigial, a minute almost submerged hemispherical dot. Filaments five, becoming 1 mm long, glabrous. Anthers five, about 1 mm long before anthesis; apical gland 0.12 mm diam., minute. Disc sinuate, red, exudes nectar, fairly level on top, exceeds the ovary by a small amount. Stigma 0.2 mm diam., depressed globose, capitellate. Style glabrous, at first deflexed, becoming 1.2 mm long, erect after the petals have fallen at which stage unfertilised flowers fall off. Ovary 5-carpellate, carpels ovoid obtuse, glabrous. Fruit 5-carpellate, 4.5 mm long, 4.2 mm diam., carpels glabrous, reddened, without gland dots, 2-ribbed towards the apex; horns 0.7 mm long, very short, dark red, somewhat spreading with an immersed gland towards the apex. Seed 2.8-3.2 mm long, 1.7-1.9 mm broad, black, shining; aril black.