Euchaetis linearis Sond.

Shrubs up to 0.4 m tall, erect, very slender, single-stemmed at base. Branches very few, straight, erect, very slender, glabrous, with a smooth reddish brown bark. Branchlets few, straight, erect, very slender, glabrous or very sparsely puberulous, well-clothed with leaves. Leaves 6-11, 5 mm long, 0.9-1.3 mm broad, narrow-linear, acute with a sharp point, glabrous, sessile, adpressed erect, not imbricate; hyaline margins serrulate and narrow; adaxially slightly concave; abaxial surface round keeled with two rows of gland dots. Inflorescence a terminal reduced cyme with four flowers on each outer branchlet, up to 23 flowers in a head, often much less. Bract one to each flower, vary considerably in size, those on branchlets smaller, about 3 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, glabrous, apex with a sharp mucro, hyaline margins somewhat serrulate, abaxial surface convex keeled, gland-dotted. Bracteoles two, similar to the bract, 2 mm long, 0.6 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, mucronate, glabrous, margins ciliolate-serrulate. Calyx lobes five, 2.8-3.4 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, broadly lanceolate, acute, apiculate, glabrous, gland-dotted, white, hyaline margins broad somewhat serrulate sometimes ciliolate at base. Petals five, 3.3 mm long overall; limb 1.5 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, elliptic, acute, glabrous, white; claw 1.8 mm long, 1 mm broad, narrowing below to a short petiole-like base, strongly transversely bearded above, translucent below, margins crisped ciliate. Staminodes five, vestigial, a minute gland about 0.05 mm diam., between the lobes of the disc. Filament five, becoming 1 mm long, acicular, glabrous. Anthers five, before anthesis 0.9 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, wine-coloured; apical gland minute, spherical. Pollen 43 µ diam., obloid, narrowed at the waist. Stigma 0.3 mm diam., globose, capitellate. Style at first deflexed becoming erect, 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.8 mm diam., glabrous, apices globose. Disc stands open, 10 sinuate, fairly sessile, exudes nectar, very like as in Diosma. Fruit (from Williams 2209) 5-carpellate, 6 mm long, 5 mm diam., glabrous, style persisting; carpels shining, smooth, green below, wine-coloured, with few gland dots; horns at most 1.5 mm long, not at all cleft, sub-acute. Seed 4.6 long, 2 mm broad, black, shining; aril black-streaked.