Lachnaea laxa (C.H.Wright) Beyers

Erect to decumbent, sparsely to moderately branched shrub up to 0.3 m tall, single-stemmed at base, branching close to ground; reseeder. Branches slender, lax to straggling, ridged below leaf bases, internodes 3/4-1 1/3 as long as leaves, at first sericeous, leafy, later glabrescent and naked with inconspicuous leaf scars. Leaves decussate with distal 2 pairs of leaves subverticillate, adpressed to ascending, scattered, sessile, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 3.8-7.6 x 0.6-1.3 mm, coriaceous, glabrous; adaxially concave, smooth, dull, ± white-punctate; abaxially convex, smooth or keeled, glossy; apex acute; base obtuse. Inflorescence terminal, 1-flowered, sericeous at floral articulation. Flowers sessile, subactinomorphic, cream to pink. Hypanthium 3.8-8.0 mm long, circumscissilc ±1/3 from base; upper portion funnel-shaped, basal portion narrowly ovoid, sericeous outside; upper portion adpressed hairy inside; basal portion glabrous inside. Sepals erect-patent, subequal, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 2.8-8.5 x 1.3-4.2 mm, acute to subacute, abaxially sericeous, adaxially sparsely sericeous or sericeous only in upper 1/4, lower 3/4 glabrous. Stamens exserted; outer, antesepalous whorl arising at base to lower 1/5 of sepals; inner, antepetalous whorl arising at rim of hypanthium; filaments 0.4-2.0 mm long, inner shorter than outer whorl; anthers ellipsoid, 0.6-1.2 mm long, abaxially without broad connective tissue. Floral scales exserted, arising at mouth of hypanthium just below antepetalous stamens, narrowly ellipsoid, 0.5-1.3 mm long, glabrous, translucent-white in fresh state. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid to ellipsoid or obovoid, 0.8-1.2 mm long, glabrous. Style linear, 2.8-6.0 mm long, covered with soft, ascending hairs in upper half. Stigma brush-like.