Glumicalyx apiculatus (E.Mey.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

Tufted perennial herb, woody at the base, eventually developing a thick woody stock; stems 60-250 mm long, many from the crown, erect, simple, pubescent with both acute and gland-tipped hairs, hairs sometimes nearly confined to 2 longitudinal bands, leafy. Leaves opposite becoming alternate upwards, c. 5-15 x 3-6 mm, diminishing slightly upwards, broadly or narrowly elliptic, subacute, base slightly narrowed with a distinct pulvinus, bases connate when leaves opposite, margins crenate-serrate in upper half, leathery, glabrous. Inflorescences globose initially, less than 10 x 10 mm, solitary, elongating to 15-45 mm in fruit. Bracts 3-5 x 24 mm, broadly elliptic to ovate, abruptly acute, margins entire, ciliate with long acute hairs and short-stalked glands, inside glandular-puberulous and with a few long hairs, leathery. Calyx 2.5-3.5 mm long, membranous, obscurely bilabiate, lobing variable, always with 3 posticous segments fused for c. 2/3 their length, 2 anticous segments nearly equalling the posticous ones or minute, or wanting, free nearly or quite to the base anticously, margins ciliate. Corolla tube 34 mm long, c. 1.5 mm broad, creamy; limb bilabiate, c. 4 mm diam., lobes elliptic, orange-yellow to pale cream inside, pale outside. Stamens all exserted, anthers equal. Capsule 3 x 2.5 mm, seeds few (c. 7-12 ovules in each loculus), c. 1 x 0.7 mm.