Lachnaea marlothii Schltr.

Slender, spreading or cushioned, moderately branched shrub up to 0.3 m tall, appearing multistemmed at base; regeneration unknown. Branches ascending to patent, slender, terete, internodes 1/4-3/4 as long as leaves, felted or thinly tomentose, leafy, later becoming glabrous and naked without prominent leaf scars. Leaves decussate, adpressed or ascending, scattered, those below inflorescence crowded, sessile, epistomatic, narrowly elliptic, 2.5-4.2 x 0.6-1.0 mm, coriaceous; adaxially concave, enervate, dull; abaxially convex, subkeeled in upper half, glossy, glabrous; apex rounded, at first villous-tufted, later naked; base rounded; distal 2 leaf pairs subverticillate, partially enclosing inflorescence, broader than other leaves, bract-like, coriaceous, green or green with maroon tinge, glabrous, adaxially concave, abaxially convex, keeled in upper half; elliptic or obovate,2.9-4.1 x 1.2-2.7 mm; margin villous-cilliate; apex acute to obtuse. Inflorescence a terminal, sessile, 5-8-flowered, pseudobracteate umbel with 2-4 open flowers at a time, 5-10 mm diam., on main flowering branches. Flowers subactinomorphic, cream or cream with pink tinge, pedicellate. Pedicel 0.5-0.7 mm long, villous, elongating in fruiting stage. Hypanthium 1.8-3.2 mm long, circumscissile 1/2-2/3 from base; upper portion funnel-shaped, sericeous-pilose outside, adpressed hirsute inside; basal portion ellipsoid, glabrous on both sides. Sepals erect-patent, subequal, elliptic, 2.0-2.4 x 0.8-1.3 mm, apex rounded or obtuse, adaxially glabrous or adpressed hairy in upper quarter, abaxially sericeous-pilose. Stamens exserted; outer, antesepalous whorl arising a 1/3-way up on sepals; inner, antepetalous whorl arising on rim of hypanthium; outer filaments 0.7-1.0 mm long, inner 0.6-1.0 mm long; anthers ellipsoid to spheroid, 0.3-0.5 mm long, abaxially without broad connective tissue. Floral scales exserted, arising immediately below antepetalous stamens in mouth of hypanthium, capitate or obovoid, 0.2-0.4 mm long, glabrous, yellow in fresh state. Ovary ellipsoid, 0.8-1.0 mm long, glabrous. Style terete-obconical, 1.8-2.5 mm long, glabrous. Stigma capitate, elongate-papillate.