Macrostylis barbigera Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.

Shrubs about 0.3 m tall, fairly erect, diffuse, single-stemmed at base. Branches short, flexuous, 2-3-chotomous, glabrous, brownish, rough with leaf scars. Branchlets short, slender, glabrous, yellowish, opposite, spreading or sub-erect, well-clothed with leaves. Leaves 6-12 mm long, 4-6.5 mm broad, ovate-cordate, acute, cuspidate, sessile, glabrous, opposite, spreading, pale green above, gland-dotted, glaucous and one-nerved beneath; margins narrowly cartilagenous, minutely gland-dotted. Inflorescence terminal, umbellate, in groups of up to 8 arranged in 4 opposite pairs, pendulous with the common peduncle 3-4 mm long deflexed; flowers pedicellate, white. Bracts one per floret, the outermost pair 2.2 mm long, 1.1 mm broad, the innermost about 1 mm long, lanceolate, glabrous, glaucous, gland-dotted. Bracteoles two, 1-1.3 mm long, oblong, complicate, glabrous at base of pedicel. Pedicel about 3.5 mm long, narrowing to the base, white, glabrous. Calyx lobes five, 2.5 mm long, 1.1 mm broad, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, gland-dotted, whitish. Petals five, 4.7 mm long overall, eciliate, densely bearded with shaggy hairs mainly on the midrib about the middle, the hairs projecting upwards from the throat of the flower; limb 1.1 mm broad, ovate; claw 1.1 mm broad. Staminodes vestigial, a minute gland 0.05 mm diam. at the apex of a filament 0.2 mm long. Filaments five, becoming 7.5 mm long, glabrous, terete. Anthers five, 1.3 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, orange-coloured; apical gland 0.15 mm diam., globose. Pollen 58 µ long, 28 µ diam., oblong. Disc closes over the ovary at first, dark green, exudes nectar. Stigma 0.3 mm diam., obtuse. Style becoming 9 mm long, terete, glabrous, very slightly narrower below. Ovary 3-carpellate, 0.7 mm diam., glabrous. Fruit 3-carpellate, of which one, two or three may develop, pedicellate, style persisting; carpel 10-12 mm long overall, glabrous, green; horn 3 mm long, erect, incurved. Seed 6.4 mm long (7.6 mm long overall including the white aril), 2.5 mm broad, black, matt, mottled.