Passerina falcifolia C.H.Wright

Much-branched, tall shrubs or small ornamental trees, (1.0-)1.2-2.0(-3.04) m high, branchlets often arcuate, pendulous. Stems grey-brown; indumentum of young stems closely whitish tomentose, forming lengthwise patterns, with cork on older branches, which gradually become glabrous, fissuring lengthwise, yellowish brown lenticulae present; leaf scars oblate. Leaves greyish green, drying greyish brown, falcate, linear to narrowly lanceolate, longitudinaly folded, triangular in section, length x depth 3.9-5.6 x 0.6 mm, adaxial surface concave, tomentose, abaxial surface glabrous; base sessile; apex obtuse or tapered; margins glabrous, involute; younger leaves inclined, diverging at an angle of ±60°, imbricate, overlapping up to 50%, older leaves horizontally spreading, not imbricate. Inflorescences with multiflowered main and co-florescences; spikes usually extended, lax, often arcuate, up to 16-flowered, arrangement subterminal, axis white-tomentose, proliferating growth common. Bracts mottled grey-green, rose-tinted during flowering time, ascending, imbricate, widely ovate, narrowing into a leaflike, falcate point, length x depth (5.3-)5.8 x 1.7(-2.0) mm; older bracts folded lengthwise along midrib and keeled, younger bracts adaxially concave (inside), abaxially slightly convex (outside), villous inside, glabrous outside, coriaceous; wings chartaceous, distinctly ±4-ribbed and reticulately veined; base cuneate; apex obtuse or tapered; margins ciliate in distal half. Floral envelope ±8.4 mm long, papyraceous and yellow-pink during pollination, dehydrated after shedding of pollen, turning red to brown. Hypanthium scantily tomentose at ovary, neck exserted, often arcuate, tomentose, ±3 mm long. Sepals: outer sepals concave, obovate, adaxially scantily tomentose, abaxially glabrous; inner sepals obovate, adaxially tomentose, abaxially glabrous. Androecium with filaments of antipetalous whorl ±1.4 mm and those of anti-sepalous whorl ±2.1 mm long; anthers ovoid, ±1 x 0.4 mm, sub-basifixed, 2-thecous and 4-locular. Ovary ±2.5 x 0.7 mm. Fruit an achene with pericarp membranous and dry, ±2.5 x 1.4 mm, enveloped by persistent, loosely arranged hypanthium, breaking up at neck base due to dehydration and torsification of tissue, resulting in sepals and androecium being shed.