Macrostylis squarrosa Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.

Shrubs about 0.3 m tall, densely bushy, single-stemmed at base. Branchlets very short, erect or sub-erect, numerous, interlocking, somewhat reddish, puberulous at first, not hidden by the leaves. Leaves 3.3 mm long, 1.7 mm broad, smaller on branchlets, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, sessile, alternate, spreading and strongly recurved; adaxial surface hollowed along the middle, glabrous except just at the base; abaxial surface with the prominent midrib gland-dotted and bristly with very short hairs; margins gland-dotted, thick, and bristly with scattered hairs. Inflorescence terminal; flowers 5 to 7-aggregate, sessile; petals white. Bract 2 mm long, 1 mm broad, leaf-like, the inner becoming much reduced. Bracteoles two, 0.9-1.1 mm long, 0.6-0.8 mm broad, ovate, translucent, pubescent, minutely ciliolate. Calyx lobes five, 1.2 mm long, 0.4 mm broad, oblong, virtually glabrous; apex thick, obtuse; midrib prominent, gland-dotted, margins ciliolate, translucent below. Petals five, 2.8 mm long overall; limb 1 mm broad, orbicular; claw 0.7 mm broad narrowing below, bearded and ciliate above. Staminodes 0.2 mm long, clavate, between petal and disc. Filaments five, becoming 5 mm long, acicular, glabrous. Anthers five, 0.8 mm long, 0.6 mm broad, yellowish; apical gland minute. Pollen 44 µ long, 21 µ diam., oblong. Disc closes over the ovary, smooth, dark green, exudes nectar. Stigma simple. Style becoming 5 mm long, filiform, glabrous. Ovary 3-carpellate, 0.5 mm diam., glabrous. Fruit 3-carpellate of which often only one matures, 9.5 mm long overall including the horn 3-4 mm long, 2.5 mm diam., glabrous except for a very few short bristles on the horn, conspicuously gland-dotted. Seed 4.8 mm long, 1.6-1.8 mm diam., black, mottled, matt; endosperm white on a truncated surface.