Phylica dodii N.E.Br.

A moderately branched shrub, up to 40 cm high, with wiry, reddish branches. Branchlets glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Leaves closely set 0.8-2 cm long: lamina erect-spreading or spreading, straight or slightly incurved, linear, mucronulate, rounded at base, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface smooth, obscurely tubercled and at first villous on the margins, soon becoming glabrous: petiole 1-2.5 mm long, much compressed dorsally, glabrous or at first pubescent on the margins. Capitula 1-1.5 cm wide, solitary, orbicular, surrounded by many villous leaves with enlarged petioles. Bracts 1-2 cm long, linear-lanceolate, attenuate, flattened, silky villous on the inner surface, glabrous at the base except for the coarse ciliation on the margins. Bracteoles 2, up to 6 mm long, linear, pilose. Flowers 5-7 mm long, shortly stipitate: calyx-tube 1.75-2 mm deep, with short, sparse pubescence on the outer surface, cyathiform: sepals 2.5-4.5 mm long, ovate, long-attenuate; inner surface rounded-convex except at the flattened base, glabrous or with a row of minute hairs parallel with each margin at the base; outer surface clothed with long, ascending, straight hairs. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0.5-1 mm long, lanceolate, tapered at base and apex, slightly convex on the inner surface, incurved. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic, clothed with long, ascending, straight hairs. Style about 0.75 mm high, cylindric. Stigma with 3 rounded lobes. Fruit about 6 mm long, orbicular, obtusely 3-angled, with a small depressed area on the summit, sparsely pubescent or glabrate.