Lachnaea nervosa Meisn.

Erect, moderately to much-branched shrub up to 0.3 m, rarely up to 1 m tall, single-or multistemmed at base; reseeder or resprouter. Branches ascending, occasionally patent, slender to semi-rigid, ridged below leaf bases, internodes up to half as long as leaves, sericeous or sparsely sericeous later glabrescent, leafy, becoming naked with prominent leaf scars. Leaves alternate, ascending or patent, close set to scattered, sessile, epistomatic, narrowly elliptic or rarely narrowly obovate, 4.7-14.0 x 0.7-1.5 mm, coriaceous, glabrous; adaxially concave, enervate, dull, faintly white-punctulate; abaxially convex, midribbed or 3-5-ribbed, glossy; apex mucronate or acuminate; base cuneate; distal leaves below inflorescence crowded, green or tinged maroon, may appear bract-like, size variable, those immediately below inflorescence largest, narrowly ovate to obovate, 1.8-9.0 x 1.0-4.2 mm, acuminate or cuspidate, margin glabrous or ciliate. Inflorescence a terminal, sessile, ebracteate, 2-14-flowered umbel with 2-5 open flowers at a time, on main and also on short lateral flowering branches below main inflorescence, appearing racemose-like. Flowers subactinomorphic, cream or pink, or cream with mauve tinge. Pedicel 0.3-2.5 mm long, sericeous. Hypanthium 3.5-6.8 (-10.0) mm long, circumscissile a 1/3-2/3 from base; upper portion funnel-shaped, sericeous on both sides, trichomes acicular; basal portion ovoid or ellipsoid, sericeous outside, trichomes blunt or subacute, glabrous inside. Sepals patent, subequal, narrowly ovate to widely elliptic, 2.3-5.2(-8.2) x 1.1-3.0 mm, apex acute to obtuse, adaxially sparsely sericeous or glabrous, abaxially sericeous. Stamens exserted; outer, antesepalous whorl arising at base of sepal; inner, antepetalous whorl arising at rim of hypanthium, shorter than outer whorl; outer filaments 1.0-2.4(-4.0) mm long, inner 0.6-1.5(-2.0) mm long; anthers ellipsoid to widely ellipsoid, 0.5-0.9(-1.2) mm long, abaxially without broad connective tissue. Floral scales exserted, arising at mouth of hypanthium immediately below antepetalous stamens, linear or narrowly ellipsoid, 0.7-1.7(-2.4) mm long, glabrous, translucent white in fresh state. Ovary ellipsoid or rarely obovoid, 0.9-1.9 mm long, glabrous, usually with tuft of hair at style attachment. Style linear, 3.0-6.0(-10.5) mm long, covered with straight, silky, ascending hairs throughout or only in upper half. Stigma brush-like.