Gymnosporia uniflora Davison

Suffrutex, up to 1 m high; stems erect and spreading from underground rootstock. Branchlets striate, angular when young, becoming terete. Leaves fascicled, coriaceous, green; lamina lanceolate-oblong, 15-50 x 3-8 mm, apex acute, obtuse or mucronate, base long-tapering, margins entire or with few teeth or rudiments of teeth; petioles very short. Inflorescences axillary, few-flowered cymes. Flowers white. Sepals triangular, ± 1 mm long, margins laciniate. Petals oblong, ± 1.5 mm long, margins laciniate. Disc sulcate, margins crenate. Male flowers: stamens shorter than petals. Female flowers: staminodes shorter than ovary; ovary 3-locular; stigma 3-branched. Fruit a 3-valved capsule, globose, 4-5 mm long, yellowish, smooth, transversely striate when dry. Seeds partially enveloped by yellow aril.