Phylica acmaephylla Eckl. & Zeyh.

A much branched shrub about 50 cm high. Branchlets slender, covered with silky, grey pubescence. Leaves 5-8 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, slightly incurved, lanceolate, acute, mucronulate, cordate at base, with revolute margins covering most of the lower surface; upper surface closely tubercled, at first pubescent, becoming glabrous or almost so: petiole about 0.75 mm long, pubescent. Capitula usually solitary, 3-6 mm wide, hemisphaeric, surrounded at base by several leaves and foliaceous bracts. Bracts of the inner series about 1.5 mm long, oblong, acute, villous on the dorsal surface. Bracteoles 2, linear, dorsally villous. Flowers about 2 mm long, on a short villous stipe: calyx-tube about 0.5 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, with an inconspicuous disc, glabrous except for the villous upper margin of the outer surface: sepals 0.5-0.75 mm long, erect-spreading, deltoid-ovate, acute, with white tomentum on the outer surface; inner surface flattened at the base, prominently angular-convex upwards, glabrous. Petals inserted half-way up the tube, scarcely 0-5 mm long: lamina cucullate, orbicular; claw longer, linear, slightly widened upwards. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic, glabrous. Stigma subsessile, trigonous. Fruit about 2 mm long, obovate-rotundate, wrinkled, chestnut-brown.