Lachnaea leipoldtii Beyers

Erect to decumbent, much-branched shrub up to 0.4 m tall, single-stemmed at base, branching close to ground; reseeder. Branches ascending to patent, flexuous, slender, terete, internodes ¾-11/2 as long as leaves, tomentose, leafy, becoming sparsely hairy and naked without prominent leaf scars. Leaves decussate with distal 2 pairs of leaves subverticillate, adpressed, scattered, sessile, epistomatic, narrowly elliptic to ovate, 2.2-3.5 x 0.8-1.2 mm, coriaceous, glabrous: adaxially concave, enervate, dull, ± white-punctate; abaxially convex, keeled, glossy, enervate; apex acute; base rounded. Inflorescence terminal, 1-flowered, sericeous-villous at floral articulation. Flowers sessile, subactinomorphic, white. Hypanthium 2.6-3.6 mm long, circumscissile 'A from base; upper portion narrowly obconical with basal invagination, sericeous outside, but at basal invagination hairs retrorse, glabrous inside but barbate at circumscission zone; basal portion ellipsoid or obovoid, glabrous outside and inside. Sepals ascending, subequal, very widely ovate to oblate, 1.5-2.0 x 1.5-1.9 mm, apex rounded to obtuse, sericeous abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Stamens: outer, antesepalous whorl exserted or half exserted, arising 1/6-1/4 down upper portion of hypanthium, inner, antepetalous whorl enclosed, arising 2/3 down upper portion of hypanthium; filaments usually shorter than anthers, 0.3-0.7 mm long, inner whorl usually as long as outer whorl, anthers ellipsoid to widely ellipsoid, 0.5-0.8 mm long, dorsally with broad connective tissue. Floral scales included, arising just above circumscission zone partially concealed by stiff hairs at base, subglobose, ±0.2 mm long, glabrous. Ovary ellipsoid, 0.5-1.0 mm long, glabrous. Style terete-obconical, 0.9-2.4 mm long, glabrous. Stigma conical and papillate.