Macrostylis tenuis E.Mey.

Shrubs 0.15 to 0.9 m tall, spreading up to 2 m, dense or diffuse, branching from ground level. Branches numerous, spreading-erect, glabrous; bark ashy-brown, fairly smooth. Branchlets numerous, spreading-erect, often dichotomous, fairly short, rigid, minutely puberulous. Leaves up to 3 mm long. 0.8-1.6 mm broad, ovate or elliptic, obtuse, rather thick or sometimes flat, sessile, spreading-erect, usually alternate, glabrous or puberulous on both sides, gland dots scattered; margins scabrid-denticulate, gland-dotted. Inflorescence terminal, up to 6-aggregate; flowers 2.5 mm diam., crowded, sessile, white-cream coloured. Bract varies, 1.2-1.7 mm long, 0.6-1.2 mm broad, ovate, obtuse, puberulous gland-dotted; margins scabrid-puberulous. Bracteoles two, 1 mm long, 0.4-0.6 mm broad, elliptic, obtuse, puberulous, ciliolate. Calyx lobes five, 1.3-1.5 mm long, 0.4-0.7 mm broad, oblong, obtuse, adaxially puberulous, gland-dotted, ciliolate. Petals five, 2.6 mm long overall; limb 0.9-1.1 mm broad, orbicular, gland-dotted; claw 1.5 mm long, narrowing to the base, densely crisped bearded above mostly towards the midrib. Staminodes five, 0.1 mm diam. or less, vestigial, at the base of the disc. Filaments five, becoming 3-4 mm long, filiform, glabrous. Anthers five, 0.7 mm long, 0.5 mm broad, reddened; apical gland globose, sessile. Pollen 45-51 µ long, 18-21 µ broad, oblong. Disc fleshy, green, closes over the ovary. Stigma 0.1 mm diam., red, simple. Style becoming 4-5 mm long, glabrous. Ovary 2 or 3-carpellate, 0.5 mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm broad, glabrous; apices setulose. Fruit 2 or 3-carpellate, 12 mm long including the horn about 4 mm long, carpels smooth or puberulous, gland-dotted, reddened, only one or two may develop. Seed 5.2 mm long, with the white aril projecting a further 1-2 mm, 2.2 mm broad, black, mottled, matt.