Exomis microphylla (Thunb.) Aellen

Subshrub with dichotomous branching, ashy grey, with simple hairs, monoecious with few bisexual flowers. Leaves alternate, ovate to lanceolate, larger ones hastiform, entire. Inflorescences terminal spikes or axillary clusters. Male flowers without bracts; tepals 4 or 5, herbaceous, broadly linear, ± recurved and hood-like towards apex; stamens 5, filaments strap-like, slightly tapering towards apex, longer than tepals, and connate at base; staminodes absent; ovary rudimentary. Bisexual flowers bibracteate; bracteoles cylindrical, accrescent in fruit; tepals 3-5, sometimes absent, slightly united below; staminodes absent; ovary fully developed; styles 2, free or united below. Flowering time all year. Fruit beaked at top; pericarp fleshy, adherent. Seed vertical, elongate to roundish or laterally compressed, blackish brownish.