Shrub 0.1-0.3 (-0.5?) m high. Leaves usually in short fascicular clusters, linear-subterete to elliptic or narrowly so, mostly 0.2-1 (-3.5) cm long, 1-2.5 (-6) mm wide; margins refracted; upper surface smooth or granulose; lower surface usually enclosed and 1-grooved, rarely on older growth exposed and glabrous or cobwebby to sublanate. Unit conflorescence umbelloid or a few-flowered cluster, basipetal. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style (hairs) white; style-end yellow, orange or red. Perianth villous outside and inside. Pistil 7-10 mm long, villous (less so ventrally on style); style-end obliquely clavate, densely papillose on dorsal side (occasionally also on ventral side); pollen-presenter lateral, round to elliptic, flat to slightly convex, with marginal rim and prominent narrowly conical stigma; distal edge of pollen-presenter level with or slightly exceeding apex of papillose style-end, not overtopped by it. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal to slightly obovoid, c. 8 mm long, loosely villous with underlying pubescence, surface faintly ridged.
Home