Lachnaea laniflora (C.H.Wright) Bond

Rounded, compact, much-branched shrub up to 1 m tall and up to 2 m diam., single-stemmed at base, branching close to ground; reseeder. Branches ascending to patent, subrigid to flexuose, terete, internodes 1/5-1/2 length of leaves, at first tomentose, later glabrescent, leafy, becoming naked with prominent leaf scars. Leaves decussate, usually strictly four-ranked, ascending, slightly incurved, imbricate, sessile, epistomatic, coriaceous, narrowly ovate narrowly elliptic, 2.5-7.0 x 0.9-1.3 mm, glabrous; adaxially obtusely concave or concave, enervate, white-punctulate, dull; abaxially convex, keeled, usually more so towards apex, glossy; apex rounded or occasionally mucronulate; base rounded or obtuse; 2 distal leaf pairs subtending inflorescence bract-like, elliptic to widely elliptic or obovate, 2.9-5.1 x 2.1-3.0 mm, coriaceous, glabrous, green or green tinged reddish brown; adaxially concave; abaxially convex, keeled towards apex; margin glabrous or occasionally; ciliolate; apex subacute; base caneate or rounded. Inflorescence a terminal, sessile, pseudobracteate, ±15-flowered, capitulum-like umbel with up to 14 open flowers at a time, 5-15 mm diam., on main flowering branches: umbel appears to be enclosed at base by 2 pairs of involucral bracts but vegetative shoots were observed to develop in axils of bract-like leaves. Flowers ± actinomorphic, pink, white, white tinged violet-blue, white turning pink with age or occasionally dark red to reddish brown, pedicellate. Pedicel 0.2-0.7 mm long, not noticeably elongating in fruit, sericeous. Hypanthium 2.3-4.0 mm long, circumscissile ±1/3-1/2 from base, circumscission zone not clearly defined; upper portion funnel-shaped, sericeous or sericeous-tomentose outside, sericeous inside; basal portion ellipsoid, outside puberulent to sericeous in upper half, rest glabrous, inside glabrous. Sepals patent, ± equal, elliptic to widely elliptic, 1.6-4.2 x 1.0-2.3 mm, adaxially sericeous to sparsely adpressed hairy, occasionally glabrous, abaxially sericeous, apex rounded. Stamens exserted; outer, antesepalous whorl arising at base of sepals; inner, antepetalous whorl arising at rim of hypanthium, shorter than outer whorl; outer filaments 0.9-1.7 mm long, inner 0.6-1.3 mm long; anthers widely ellipsoid to spheroid, 0.2-0.5 mm long, abaxially without broad connective tissue. Floral scales exserted, arising at mouth of hypanthium immediately below antepetalous stamens, narrowly ellipsoid or narrowly obovoid, 0.4-1.0 mm long, glabrous, yellow or white in fresh state. Ovary ellipsoid, 0.7-1.0 mm long, glabrous. Style terete-obconical, 2.1-3.4 mm long, sericeous in upper half. Stigma brush-like.