Lachnaea grandiflora Baill.

Erect or occasionally straggling, moderately to much-branched shrub 0.2-0.6(-1.0) m tall, multistemmed at base; resprouter. Branches ascending to decumbent, slender to moderately thick, flexuose to semi-rigid, internodes 1/4-1 1/2 length of leaves, ridged below leaf bases, usually adpressed-puberulent, occasionally sparsely hairy, leafy, later glabrescent and naked with prominent leaf scars. Leaves decussate with distal 2 pairs subverticillate, subadpressed to ascending, ± imbricate or scattered, sessile, epistomatic, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 2.2-11.5 x 0.8-3.0 mm, coriaceous, glabrous; adaxially obtusely concave or concave, enervate or faintly mid-veined, dull, ± white-punctate; abaxially convex, occasionally nervate, subkeeled or only subkeeled in upper half, glossy, smooth to rugose, sometimes upper leaves below inflorescence with a reddish brown tinge; apex acute, mucronulate or mucronate; base obtuse or rounded; margin membranous, narrow to broad, when broad usually conspicuously corrugated (with transverse folds). Inflorescence terminal, 1-flowered. Flowers sessile, subactinomorphic, creamy white, white with a pink tinge, pinkish mauve or pink, unscented. Hypanthium 5-14 mm long, circumscissile 1/5-1/3 from base; upper portion narrowly obconical to obconical; basal portion narrowly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, occasionally widely obovoid, sericeous outside, trichomes of base and upper portion acicular, upper portion adpressed hairy inside from floral scales downwards, glabrous or sparsely hairy above; basal portion adpressed hairy inside in upper 1/3-1/2, glabrous below. Sepals ascending to spreading, subequal (2 inner ones slightly smaller than outer 2), elliptic, obovate or occasionally ovate, 5.2-14.5 x 3-8 mm, apex subacute to obtuse, abaxially sericeous, adaxially usually glabrous, occasionally glabrescent. Stamens of outer, antesepalous whorl exserted, adnate to upper portion of hypanthium and becoming free at base to 1/5 way up sepals; inner, antepetalous whorl semi-exserted or included, occasionally exserted, adnate to upper hypanthium and becoming free at rim to a 1/3-way down hypanthium; filaments 0.3-2.2 mm long; anthers narrowly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, 1.0-2.6 mm long, abaxially without broad connective tissue. Floral scales enclosed, arising 1/6-1/3 way, occasionally 1/2 way up from circumscission zone on upper portion of hypanthium, semiterete, abaxially adnate to hypanthium, narrowly elliptic or oblong in outline, 0.4-1.2 mm long, glabrous, yellow in fresh state. Ovary ellipsoid, 1.0-2.2 mm long, glabrous. Style terete-obconical, 5.2-11.5 mm long, glabrous, occasionally glabrescent. Stigma capitate, elongate-papillate.