Phylica floccosa Pillans

A much branched, wiry shrublet about 20 cm high, with slender branchlets clothed with very dense, white tomentum. Leaves closely set, 3-6 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, somewhat incurved, linear, semiterete, truncate or obtuse, with an apiculus directed inwards, cordate at base; upper surface smooth except for minute pustules on the margins and about the apex where it is at first pilose; petiole about 1 mm long, densely tomentose. Capitula solitary, about 5 mm wide, hemisphaeric, 5-8-flowered, subtended by several leaves. Bracts about 3 mm long, linear-lanceolate, densely villous on the dorsal surface. Bracteoles 2, setaceous, villous. Mowers sessile, about 2.5 mm long: tube 1 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, densely covered outside with deciduous, white, woolly hairs: sepals 1 mm long, ovate, flat and glabrous on the inner surface, with a dense covering of white, woolly hairs on the outer surface. Petals inserted at the middle of the tube, 0.5 mm long: lamina rotundate, cucullate: claw half as long, linear. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary narrowly obconic, clothed with caducous, woolly hairs. Stigma on a short, columnar style.