Euchaetis scabricosta I.Williams

Shrubs about 30 cm tall with several slender stems occasionally arising from a fairly stout rootstock. Branches slender, straight, erect or lax, clothed with a short erect pubescence, hidden beneath the leaves. Leaves 5-10 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, glabrous, opposite, decussate, imbricate, erect, lanceolate, acute, with a small callus at the apex, margins ciliate, narrowly translucent and dotted with small glands, narrowed at the base to a short petiole, dorsal ridge prominent and glandular-serrate, adaxial surface deeply hollowed, complicate when dried. Bract one, leaf-like, 4.6 mm long, 1.5-1.9 mm broad, glabrous, lanceolate, ciliate. Bracteoles two, about 4 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, glabrous, ciliate, somewhat asymmetrical with broad translucent margins. Inflorescence terminal in groups of up to 6 flowers which themselves may be aggregated into quite large clusters; each flower 6 mm diam., white or pink with the throat closed by a fringe of hairs. Calyx lobes five, 4 mm long, 2.7 mm broad, apiculate, sub-orbicular, margins ciliate and broadly translucent, midrib with or without a few hairs near apex. Petals five, 5.5 mm long including the claw; limb 2.5 mm diam., orbicular; claw 3 mm long, 1.3 mm broad, transversely bearded above, laterally ciliate, narrowing to the base. Staminodes five, vestigal, a minute gland about 0.05 diam. Filaments five, becoming 2 mm long, glabrous, subulate. Anthers five, before anthesis 1.3 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, oblong, bilobed, purplish-red with a minute apical gland. Pollen ellipsoid, 55µ long, 35µ broad. Disc extends well over the ovary, green, fleshy, exudes nectar. Stigma about 0.6 mm diam. capitate, globose, green, viscid. Style becoming about 1.3 mm long, glabrous ever-erect. Ovary 5-carpellate, 0.9 mm diam., glabrous or with a few hairs at the apices of the carpels. Fruit 5-carpellate, 8 mm long, 5 mm diam., glabrous gland-dotted on both margins in the lower half; horns 2.5 mm long, erect, apices somewhat bifid clasping a minute gland. Fruit 3.8-5 mm long including the white aril, without the aril 2.8-4.3 mm long, 1.8 mm diam., black, shining.