Lachnaea densiflora Meisn.

Erect, corymbosely, moderate to much-branched shrub up to 0.5 m tall, single-stemmed at base; reseeder. Branches ascending, semi-rigid, ridged below leaf bases, sericeous or sericeo-tomentose, densely leafy, the older sparsely hairy or glabrous and naked with prominent leaf scars. Leaves alternate, ascending to inclined, below inflorescence often patent with apex turned upward, crowded to distant, internodes 0.2 to as long as leaf length, sessile, amphistomatic, glabrous or occasionally margins ciliate or apex tufted, later becoming glabrous, linear to narrowly elliptic, 5-12(-20) x 0.7-2.5 mm, coriaceous or slightly fleshy, green, concolorous, enervate, glossy or dull, white-punctulate, in dried state longitudinally wrinkled; adaxially ± flat to concave; abaxially convex, sometimes subkeeled; apex acuminate, occasionally acute; base cuneate to attenuate. Inflorescence a terminal, ebracteate capitulum, globose, 8-16 mm diam., ±40-flowered with up to 22 open flowers, pedunculate; peduncle 5-10 mm long, sericeous or tomentose-sericeous. Receptacle at first hemispherical, later, after elongating, conical to widely conical, 2-8 x 3.4-7.5 mm, sericeous. Flowers sessile, subactinomorphic, cream, cream with a pink flush, or pale to dark pink. Hypanthium 1.7-3.9 mm long, circumscissile 0.6-0.75 from base; upper portion widely obconical; basal portion ovoid or ellipsoid, sericeous to villosulous outside, inside adpressed hirsute between base of floral scales and plane of circumscission, rest glabrous. Sepals patent, subequal, ovate to widely depressed ovate, 1.7-3.5 x 1.2-3.1 mm, adaxially tomentose, abaxially tomentose or occasionally sericeo-tomentose, apex rounded to obtuse. Stamens exserted; outer, antesepalous whorl arising at base of sepals; inner, antepetalous whorl arising 0.25-0.3 down upper portion of hypanthium; filaments 0.5-1.8 mm long, inner whorl shorter than outer whorl; anthers ellipsoid to depressed spheroid, 0.3-0.4 mm long, abaxially without broad connective tissue. Floral scales exserted, arising 0.5-0.67 down upper portion of hypanthium, linear, 0.5-1.0 mm long, glabrous, yellow in fresh state. Ovary ellipsoid to obovoid, 0.7-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Style filiform, 1.8-3.1 mm long, adpressed hairy in upper 0.5-0.67. Stigma brush-like.