Phylica gnidioides Eckl. & Zeyh.

A much branched shrub, up to 90 cm high. Branchlets slender, clothed with adpressed, grey pubescence. Leaves crowded, mostly 8-10 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, linear, mucronulate, rounded at base, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface, dorsally compressed at the sides; upper surface smooth, at first ciliate on the edges: petiole about 1 mm long. Capitula often clustered, 1.5-2 cm wide, hemisphaeric, laxly many-flowered, surrounded at base by many ciliate leaves with enlarged petioles. Bracts of the inner flowers about 6 mm long, linear-lanceolate, ciliate, puberulous on the outer surface. Bracteoles absent. Flowers 8-11 mm long, stipitate, constricted between the tube and the ovary, covered outside with very short grey tomentum: calyx-tube 4.5-5 mm deep, oblong-tubular, with a small, entire, cupular disc at the base within: sepals 2.5 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, acute; inner surface convex, glabrous, slightly keeled on the upper half. Petals inserted in the mouth of the tube, 1.25-1.5 mm long: lamina widely ovate, cucullate, minutely pustulate on the dorsal surface: claw as long, cuneate-oblong. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary turbinate, constricted at the summit. Style 2.5 mm long, filiform, terete. Stigma capitate, obscurely lobed. Fruit 10-11 mm long, rotundate, velvety pubescent, with a very small depression on the summit.