Phylica alpina Eckl. & Zeyh.

A low shrub with ascending, slender branches covered with rather long, spreading, grey pubescence. Leaves 5-6 mm long: the lamina lanceolate, acute, cordate at base, erect-spreading, slightly incurved, with revolute margins covering about half of the tomentose lower surface; upper surface conspicuously tubercled, shining; the tubercles at first tipped with soft, grey hairs: petiole about 0.5 mm long, pubescent. Capitula 5-8 mm wide, hemisphaeric, subtended by a few, short, modified leaves. Bracts of the outer series 3 mm long, broadly cuneate and pubescent in the lower half, leaf-like in the upper: inner bracts 2.5 mm long, linear, covered with ascending, straight hairs. Bracteoles 2, 1.5 mm long, setaceous, similarly pubescent. Flowers 2-2.5 mm long: tube 0.5 mm deep, cyathiform, with an inconspicuous disc lining the base, glabrous except round the outside of the mouth: sepals 0.75 mm long, erect-spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acute; the inner surface convex, prominent on the upper half, glabrous; outer surface densely covered with long, ascending, white hairs. Petals inserted shortly below the mouth of the tube or lower in the upper half, scarcely 0.5 mm long: lamina obovate, cucullate, narrowed at base into a short, cuneate claw. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary turbinate, glabrous, surrounded at base by hairs of the stipe. Style together with the stigma broadly conical, reaching almost to the anthers.