Euchaetis meridionalis I.Williams

Shrubs up to 1.5 m, usually much less, forming a dense rounded bush, single stemmed at base, sometimes in close mats. Branches numerous, erect, short, glabrous, di-trichotomous, somewhat rough with leaf scars. Branchlets numerous, erect, short, sparsely puberulous, densely foliate. Leaves up to 6 mm long, 3.5 mm broad, elliptic or orbicular, obtuse, sub-imbricate, erect, glabrous, 4-5 ranked, somewhat complicate; midrib prominent with 2 or 3 gland dots; margins narrowly cartilaginous, sparsely ciliolate with a few gland dots; petiole short. Inflorescence terminal, 4-6 nate, flowers pale pink to white. Bract leaf-like, 4 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, elliptic or orbicular, obtuse, glabrous, sessile, somewhat thick, exuding resin from numerous glands situated towards the axil; margins narrowly cartilaginous, sparsely ciliolate. Bracteoles two, 2.5 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, asymmetrically elliptic, glabrous, ciliolate, apex thickened and green, resiniferous below. Calyx lobes five, 2.5 mm long, 2-2.3 mm broad, sub-elliptic, glabrous, pinkish; apex thickened; margins broadly translucent below, sparsely ciliolate. Petals five, 5.2 mm long; blade 2.2 mm long, 3.1 mm broad, glabrous, pale pink to white; claw 3 mm long, 1.8 mm broad, transversely bearded and sparsely ciliate above. Staminodes five, vestigial or a stalked gland 0.2 mm long. Filaments five, becoming 1.5 mm long, glabrous, pale pink, acicular. Anthers five, 1.2 mm long, 0.9 mm broad, pink, apex with a minute gland. Pollen 45-50 µ long, 30-33 µ broad, oblong. Disc dark green, exudes nectar, curling inwards over the ovary. Stigma 0.5 mm diam., globose, dark green, capitate. Style becoming 1.4 mm long, glabrous, erect. Ovary 5-carpellate, 1 mm diam., 0.9 mm long; lobes obtuse with a few hairs towards the sides above. Fruit 5-carpellate, 7 mm long, 4.5 mm diam., surrounded for the most part by the persistent calyx and petals; carpel glabrous with many gland dots; horn 2 mm long, erect with a few hairs above, apex retuse with a gland. Seed 3.8-4.2 mm long including the white aril, 1.5 mm broad, black, shining.