Phylica debilis Eckl. & Zeyh.

A much branched shrub, 30-60 cm high. Branchlets slender, sparsely covered with short, grey tomentum. Leaves 2.5-5 mm long: lamina spreading, cordate-lanceolate or cordate-ovate, apiculate, laterally compressed and usually incurved at the apex, with margins loosely folded over and almost always covering the lower surface; upper surface with minute, scattered tubercles (often indistinct and the surface apparently smooth), at first sparsely pilose but soon becoming glabrous: petiole 0.75-1 mm long. Capitula 6-8 mm wide, flattened above, surrounded by leaves with elongated petioles. Bracts of the inner flowers 2-2.5 mm long, setaceous, glabrous on the lower half, villous on the upper. Bracteoles absent. Flowers 2.75-3 mm long: calyx-tube 1 mm deep, broadly urceolate, covered outside with silky, white hairs, with an indistinct disc on the lower half within: sepals 1 mm long, ovate, attenuate; outer surface with a dense covering of white, woolly hairs; inner surface convex, glabrous. Petals inserted half way up the tube, 0.25-0.5 mm long, setaceous or linear or linear-lanceolate in the upper half, slightly concave on the inner side, more or less incurved. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary fusiform, constricted at the summit, covered with ascending silky hairs. Style scarcely 0.5 mm long, clavate, with a small rounded stigma.