Euchaetis glabra I.Williams

Shrubs up to 50 cm tall, somewhat diffuse, the lower 20 cm single stemmed, erect, ringed with horizontal leaf scars, about 5 mm diam. Branches normally arising in clusters, soon leafless, glabrous, fairly erect. Branchlets erect, slender, glabrous, densely foliate. Leaves about 4 mm long, 2.5 mm broad with a petiole about 1 mm long, orbicular or elliptic, obtuse with a blunt reddish callus, glabrous, somewhat fleshy, gland dotted near the margins and midrib, hyaline margins thin and minutely serrulate. Inflorescence terminal, with the florets, about 12 in number, opening at different times; there are no conspicuous involucral leaves. Bract leaf like, one in number subtending each floret. Bracteoles 2, 3 mm long, 1 mm broad, somewhat club shaped, obtuse, glabrous, ciliolate, somewhat keeled, apex with a small blunt reddish callus. Calyx lobes 5, 2.5 mm long, 1.3 mm broad, oblong, obtuse, thickened towards the apex, hyaline margins minutely ciliolate, tinged with red. Petals 5, 4 mm long, 1.4 mm broad, oblanceolate, obtuse, gland dotted, transversely bearded, with the claw sparsely ciliate, translucent, narrowing evenly to the base. Staminodes 5, about 0.1 mm diam., vestigial, a minute spherical gland on the disc. Filaments 5, at first about 0.5 mm long, lengthening to 1.3 mm long after anthesis and carrying the discharged anthers to the outside of the petals, glabrous. Anthers 5, before anthesis 0.8 mm long, 0.6 mm broad, oblong, reddish, with a minute spherical gland about 0.15 mm diam. at the apex; under x 16 magnification the surface of the anther is seen to be roughened with red glands on an orange background. Pollen 45 µ long, 18 µ diam., oblong, slightly narrowed in the middle, surface rough-dotted and with three longitudinal striations. Disc slightly exceeding the ovary, dark red in colour, exuding nectar. Stigma capitellate, at first inclined. Style glabrous, becoming 1 mm long. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.7 mm diam., glabrous. Fruit 5-carpellate, 4.5 mm long, 5 mm diam., glabrous, surface translucent and gland dotted; horns very short. Seed 3.5 mm long, 2 mm broad, black, shining.