Lachnaea funicaulis Schinz

Sparsely to moderately branched, erect shrub up to 0.45 m tall, single-stemmed at base, corymbosely branched near ground or higher up stem; reseeder. Branches erect, slender, terete, internodes as long as to one and a half times as long as leaves, felted, leafy, later glabrescent and naked without prominent leaf sears. Leaves decussate, adpressed, scattered, sessile, epistomatic, lanceolate, narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, 3.8-5.0 x 0.8-1.4 mm, coriaceous, glabrous with lanate-ciliate margin; adaxially concave, smooth, dull; abaxially convex, smooth or subkeeled, glossy; apex obtuse; base rounded. Inflorescence a terminal, sessile, bracteate, 8-12-flowered umbel with 3-6 open flowers at a time, 4-8 mm diam., on main and sometimes on short lateral flowering branches just below main inflorescence forming a cluster of inflorescences at apex. Involucral bracts 4, coriaceous, green, glabrous, margin brown, lanate-ciliate; inner pair obovate, 3-4 x 2.2-2.5 mm, apex truncate or sub-emarginate; outer pair narrowly obovate or obovate, 3.5-4.6 x 1.8-2.5 mm, apex obtuse or truncate. Flowers subactinomorphic, cream, pedicellate. Pedicel 0.6-2.4 mm long, covered with long silky, ascending hairs, elongating in fruiting stage. Hypanthium 2.7-3.5 mm long, circumscissile ±1/2-1/3 from base; upper portion funnel-shaped, outside tomentose-sericeous but around circumscission zone puberulent, inside adpressed hairy; basal portion ellipsoid, outside glabrous except near circumscission zone puberulent, inside glabrous. Sepals erect-patent, subequal, shape variable, ovate to widely ovate, elliptic or obovate to widely obovate, 1.0-1.6 x 0.8-1.5 mm, apex rounded or obtuse, adaxially glabrous or at apex adpressed hairy, abaxially tomentose-sericeous. Stamens exserted, or only outer, antesepalous whorl exserted and inner, antepetalous whorl semi-exserted; outer whorl arising at base of sepals or rim of hypanthium; inner whorl arising a 1/4-2/3 down upper portion of hypanthium; outer filaments 0.5-0.9 mm long, inner 0.4-0.6 mm long; anthers ellipsoid, 0.3-0.4 mm long, abaxially without broad connective tissue. Floral scales enclosed, arising 1/2-4/5 down upper portion of hypanthium, narrowly ellipsoid or clavate, 0.2-0.3 mm long, glabrous. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid or narrowly ovoid, 0.6-1.6 mm long, glabrous. Style terete-obconical,1.9-2.5 mm long, glabrous. Stigma either subcapitate and elongate-papillate or capitate and papillate.