Phylica lasiocarpa Sond.

A much branched shrub, up to 60 cm high, with wiry branches. Branchlets slender, clothed with short cream-coloured or grey pubescence. Leaves mostly 6-12 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, linear, lanceolate-linear or linear-oblong, subacute or obtuse, apiculate, rounded at base, with revolute margins covering most or, in luxuriant growth, less than half of the lower surface; upper surface with minute tubercles on the margins, on the midrib and about the apex, or quite smooth, at first villous upon the tubercled parts, soon becoming glabrous: petiole 1-1.5 mm long. Capitula normally solitary, 5-6 mm wide, flattened above, subtended by several reduced leaves. Bracts about 2 mm long, lanceolate, densely villous. Bracteoles absent. Flowers sessile, 2-2.5 mm long, covered outside with white tomentum: calyx-tube broadly cyathiform, almost filled with a fleshy disc: sepals 1 mm long, deltoid-ovate, acute; inner surface flattened, with a slight keel up the middle. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0.5 mm long: lamina orbicular, cucullate: claw half as long, cuneate. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary broadly obconic. Style with stigma 0.5 mm long, narrowly conical. Fruit about 7 mm long, obovate-rotundate, densely tomentose, dull green, with a narrow base of the calyx-tube upon the summit.