Phylica lasiantha Pillans

A moderately branched shrub of medium height, with ascending, slender brandies. Branchlets covered with short, spreading, grey hairs. Leaves closely set, 3.5-5 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, spreading or eventually decimate, slightly incurved, lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, cordate at base, with closely revolute margins covering most of the lower surface; upper surface smooth, glabrous except for a tuft of deciduous hairs at the apex: petiole short. Capitula solitary, about 6 mm wide, broadly hemisphaeric, involucred with short leaves with elongated petioles and with outer bracts. Bracts of the inner flowers 2 mm long, setaceous, with long, silky hairs on the outer surface. Bracteoles 2, similar to the bracts but shorter. Flowers stipitate, 3-3.5 mm long: calyx-tube 0.75 mm deep, cyathiform, glabrous except for woolly hairs around the outside of the mouth: sepals 2 mm long, linear-lanceolate, attenuate, erect-spreading, recurved from about the middle, with a dense covering of loner white, woolly hairs on the outer surface; inner surface flattened and puberulous in the lower half, angular-convex upwards. Petals inserted on the upper half of the tube, 0.5 mm long, lamina ovate or elliptic, attenuate or laciniate, tipped with a compressed hair, sparsely ciliate, very slightly concave, incurved: claw very short, oblong. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary narrowly turbinate, glabrous. Style conical. Stigma pulvinate.