Menodora juncea Harv.

Suffrutex, virgate, 30-160 cm tall, branches rigid, suberect, terete, striate, minutely silvery puberulous. Leaves sessile, remote, linear, cuneate at the base, often much reduced, closely pressed to the stem, 0.3-3 cm long and up to 3 mm broad. Inflorescence of one or several terminal, 3-flowered cymes. Calyx 5-6-lobed, tube usually 2.5-3 mm long, lobes linear to linear-acuminate from a triangular base, 2.5-8 mm long. Corolla yellow; tube about 6 mm long; lobes oblong to oblong-obovate, 1.2-2 cm long and 0.7-1.4 cm broad, broadly rounded at apex, mucronate. Stamens exserted; anthers 4-6 mm long. Ovary deeply 2-lobed; style filiform, up to 1.4 cm long; stigma small, capitate. Fruit a 2-lobed capsule, sometimes only one lobe developing, subglobose up to 9 mm long and 8 mm broad, the coat becoming chartaceous and dehiscing circumscissilely; seeds black in dried specimens.