Lachnaea pusilla Beyers

Straggling, erect, much-branched shrub up to 0.4 m tall, single-stemmed at base; reseeder. Branches ascending to patent, flexuous, filiform, terete, internodes 3/4 to as long as leaves, sericeous, leafy, becoming glabrous and naked without prominent leaf scars. Leaves decussate with distal 2 pairs of leaves subverticillate, adpressed, sessile, epistomatic, narrowly elliptic, 2.8-3.2 x 0.6-0.7 mm, coriaceous, glabrous; adaxially concave, enervate, dull, ± white-punctate; abaxially convex, subkeeled, glossy; apex subacute; base rounded. Inflorescence terminal, 1-flowered, villous at floral articulation. Flowers sessile, subactinomorphic, white, some tinged pale pink. Hypanthium 2.3-3.2 mm long, circumscissile 1/4-1/3 from base; upper portion narrowly obconical with basal invagination, sericeous outside, but at basal invagination hairs retrorse, inside sericeous at mouth, glabrescent towards base and barbate at base of floral scales; basal portion ellipsoid or obovoid, outside puberulent in upper and lower 1/3, middle portion covered with ascending, obtuse hairs, inside adpressed hairy at plane of circumscission, glabrous below. Sepals erect-patent, subequal, elliptic to widely elliptic, 1.4-2.5 x 1.2-1.7 mm, rounded to obtuse, sericeous on both sides. Stamens: outer, antesepalous whorl exserted, arising at mouth of hypanthium; inner, antepetalous whorl enclosed, arising 2A way down upper portion of hypanthium; filaments as long or shorter than anthers, 0.2-0.5 mm long, inner whorl shorter or as long as outer whorl; anthers ellipsoid to ovoid, 0.5-0.7 mm long, dorsally with broad connective tissue. Floral scales included, arising just above circumscission zone partially concealed by stiff hairs at base, subglobose, 0.2-0.3 mm long, glabrous, yellow in fresh state. Ovary ellipsoid, 0.8-0.9 mm long, glabrous. Style narrowly cylindrical-obconical, 0.7-1.0 mm long, glabrous. Stigma very narrowly conical, papillate, 1.6-2.0 mm long.