Euchaetis tricarpellata I.Williams

Shrubs up to 40 cm tall, inconspicuous, slender, diffuse, arising from a single stem at ground level. Branches slender, smooth, fairly erect. Branchlets erect, slender, glabrous, well clothed with leaves. Leaves 5.7-7 mm long, 1 mm broad, narrowly lanceolate, acute, mucronate, glabrous, sub-glaucous, indistinctly gland-dotted, eciliate, erect, adpressed, alternate, with a very short petiole. Flowers about 5 mm diam., terminal, white, 2-3-nate. Bract leaf-like. Bracteoles two, 3.3 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, lanceolate, acute, mucronate, glabrous, sub-glaucous, eciliate, margins below translucent. Sepals five, 4 mm long, 2 mm broad, broadly lanceolate, acute, glabrous, glaucous, eciliate, margins broadly translucent below. Petals five, 6 mm long, white, clawed; limb 3.5 mm long, 3.5 mm broad, orbicular, glabrous, minutely apiculate; claw 2.5 mm long, 1.4 mm broad, transversely bearded, cillate, translucent towards the base. Staminodes five, 0.05 mm diam., vestigial. Filaments five, acicular, glabrous, after anthesis 1.5 mm long. Anthers five, before anthesis 1.2 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, wine coloured, with a minute rounded apical gland. Pollen ellipsoid, 45 µ long, 23 µ diam. Disc closes somewhat over the ovary, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.5 mm diam., capitate, globose, apex faintly 3-furrowed. Style becoming 1 mm long after anthesis, erect, glabrous, persisting. Ovary 3-carpellate, 0.7 mm diam., glabrous, the apices of the segments truncate. Fruit 3-carpellate, 9 mm long, 4.5 mm diam., smooth, glaucous, somewhat purplish about the middle; horns 2 mm long, erect, emarginate. Seed 4.1 mm long, 2 mm broad, black, not shining, with a pointed white aril 1.5 mm long. Material that was both flowering and fruiting has been gathered in September and again in November.