Phylica altigena Schltr.

A much branched shrublet: branches ascending, wiry, shortly grey-tomentose and sparingly pilose. Leaves 5-8 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, slightly incurved, linear, callus-acute or obtuse, with revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface finely tuberculate-scabrous, pilose with soft, grey hairs, becoming glabrous: petiole about 1 mm long, ascending, tomentose. Capitula solitary or 2 approximate on short branchlets, 1-1.5 cm wide, hemisphaeric, surrounded by many, strongly ciliate leaves. Bracts about 7 mm long, linear, recurved above the middle, glabrous on both sides of the lower half, grey-villous on both sides of the upper. Bracteoles absent. Flowers 4.5-5 mm long: tube 1.75 mm deep, cyathiform; the outer surface glabrous on the lower parts, sparsely villous on the upper; inner surface glabrous, with a cup-shaped disc at the base: sepals 1.5 mm long, erect-spreading, lanceolate, acuminate; outer surface grey-villous; inner surface flattened on the lower half, convex on the upper, bearded with long hairs at the middle and thence down the margins to the base. Petals inserted half way up the tube, 0.5 mm long, linear, incurved over the anthers, tipped with a long flat hair. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary obconic, grey-villous. Style 0.5 mm long, stout. Stigma conical, 3-umbonate.