Phylica gracilis D.Dietr.

A rather slender, much branched shrub, about 40 cm high, occasionally up to 60 cm Branchlets slender to very slender, thinly clothed with spreading, grey pubescence. Leaves mostly 6-10 mm long: lamina linear-lanceolate, acute, cordate at base, with revolute margins covering most of the lower surface, erect-spreading, somewhat incurved; upper surface smooth and glabrous except for a few obscure tubercles on the margins and midrib which at first are pilose but often retain their hairs for a considerable time: petiole 0.75-1 mm long. Capitula usually solitary, 6-10 mm wide, hemisphaeric, surrounded by several leaves with enlarged petioles. Bracts of the inner flowers 2.5-3 mm long, setaceous, clothed with long, white, silky hairs on the outer surface. Bracteoles 2, similar. Flowers 3-4.5 mm long: calyx-tube 1-1.5 mm deep, narrowly obconic, glabrous: sepals 1-1.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate; inner surface rounded-convex, glabrous; outer surface covered with ascending, long, white hairs. Petals inserted half way up the tube, scarcely 0.75 mm long: lamina calyptriform, obtuse at apex, slightly recurved, with a small, rounded lobe at the anterior and side margins: claw about as long, linear. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary narrowly tubular-obconic, glabrous. Stigma subsessile, capitate. Fruit about 3.5 mm long, obconic-rotundate, dark purple-brown, with a small depressed area on the summit.