Phylica brevifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.

Plants usually 3-4 dm high, erect, much-branched: branchlets slender, grey-pubescent. Leaves crowded, 1.75-2.5 mm long: lamina spreading or erect-spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acute, cordate at base, strongly incurved from the middle or above, with revolute margins covering the lower surface and united below the apex; upper surface smooth, cell-marked, at first with a tuft of short hairs at the apex, soon becoming glabrous: petiole about 0.5 mm long, pubescent. Capitula solitary or in small clusters, 6-10 mm wide, hemisphaeric, surrounded at base by modified leaves, furnished on the receptacle with long woolly hairs which envelope the lower half of the flowers. Bracts 2-2.5 mm long, finely setaceous, glabrous except for one to several grey hairs at the apex. Bracteoles absent. Flowers 3-5 mm long, stipitate: tube scarcely 1 mm deep, cyathiform, contracted at the mouth, glabrous except for woolly hairs around the outside of the mouth, with an inconspicuous disc: sepals about 1.5 mm long, erect-spreading, recurved from about the middle, lanceolate, attenuate; outer surface covered with a mass of caducous, white, woolly hairs; inner surface flat and sparsely pubescent at base, convex upwards, pale at the apex. Petals inserted near the mouth of the tube, scarcely or fully 0.5 mm long: lamina ovate-rotundate, slightly concave on the inner side, lacerate-ciliate: claw very short. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary narrowly obconic, glabrous. Style together with the stigma about 0.5 mm high, conical. Fruit about 3 mm long, obovate, glabrous, dark brown, with a large disc-area.