Lachnaea striata (Lam.) Meisn.

Erect, corymbosely branched shrublet up to 0.6 m tall, multistemmed at base; resprouter. Branches ascending, slender, slightly ridged below leaf bases, sericeous to sparsely sericeous, later glabrescent, densely leafy, becoming naked with prominent leaf scars. Leaves alternate, ascending, subimbricate to scattered, sessile, epistomatic, 4.8-10.0 x 1.5-4-.5 mm, narrowly-elliptic to elliptic or ovate, coriaceous; adaxially flat with margin slightly incurved, glabrous, smooth, dull, ± white-punctulate; abaxially flat, venation conspicuous, prominently 1-5-ribbed, glabrous, glossy; apex acute; base cuneate to attenuate; margin crisped, ciliate, trichomes bulbous at base, base often tinged red; with age trichomes disappear, then margins papillate. Inflorescence a terminal, sessile, ebracteate, more than 12-flowered umbel, 8-20 mm diam., on main flowering branches. Flowers subactinomorphic, cream, purple or pale rose, pedicellate. Pedicel 0.4-0.9 mm long, sericeous. Hypanthium 2.6-4.2 mm long, circumscissile 1/2-2/3 from base; upper portion shortly funnel-shaped, sericeous to sparsely hairy outside, inside pubescent with stiff hairs at mouth; basal portion ellipsoid, glabrous outside and inside. Sepals patent, subequal, elliptic to ovate, 2.2-5.3 x 1.0-1.3 mm, apex rounded, adaxially sericeous or posterior and anterior ones sparsely hairy with apex sericeous, lateral ones glabrous, or all four glabrous and only sericeous at apex, abaxially sericeous. Stamens exserted; outer, antesepalous whorl arising at base of sepals; inner, antepetalous whorl arising at rim of hypanthium, shorter than outer whorl; outer filaments 1.0-1.6 mm long, inner 0.7-1.1 mm long; anthers widely ellipsoid to depressed spheroid. 0.5-0.7 mm long, abaxially without broad connective tissue. Floral scales exserted, arising at mouth of hypanthium immediately below antepetalous stamens, linear to clavate, 0.5-0.8 mm long, glabrous. Ovary ellipsoid, ovoid or obovoid, 1.0-2.2 mm long, glabrous. Style linear, 1.9-3.7 mm long, upper half covered with straight, adpressed or incurled hairs, lower half glabrous. Stigma brush-like.