Phylica abietina Eckl. & Zeyh.

A much branched shrub, about 60 cm high. Branchlets slender, covered with short, adpressed, grey pubescence. Leaves closely set, 4-6 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, linear-lanceolate, with a laterally compressed, truncate apex, mucronulate, rounded at base, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface smooth, at first pubescent on the margins, soon glabrous: petiole about 1 mm long, pubescent. Capitula solitary, about 1 cm wide, rotundate, surrounded at base by many leaves with enlarged petioles. Bracts about 5 mm long, linear, acuminate, covered on the outer surface with silky, white hairs. Bracteoles 2, similar to the bracts but much shorter. Flowers 6-8 mm long, subsessile: calyx-tube 3-4 mm deep, cylindric, slightly widened at the mouth, covered with short, white tomentum on the outer surface, glabrous on the inner: sepals 1.5 mm long, lanceolate-ovate, acute, flattened; outer surface densely white-tomentose and villous; inner surface glabrous, with a prominent midrib. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0-75 mm long: lamina cordate, incurved at the sides, somewhat cucullate at the apex: claw short, oblong. Anthers 2-celled, 0-5 mm long, cordate in side view, truncate at apex. Ovary obconic, covered with ascending, silky, white hairs. Style 3.5-4.75 mm long, slender, terete. Stigma 0-25 mm long, clavate, reaching to the upper half of the petals. Fruit about 5 mm long, rotundate, velvety pubescent, with many sulcae and a small area on the summit.