Phylica minutiflora Schltr.

A much branched shrub, about 60 cm high, rigid in the lower parts. Branchlets slender, clothed with spreading, short, grey pubescence. Leaves crowded, mostly 5-10 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, lanceolate-linear or linear, rounded at base, with an incurved mucro, semiterete, with the revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface almost smooth, obscurely tubercled and at first pilose on the margins: petiole about 1 mm long. Capitula 3-5 mm wide, few-flowered, almost hidden in side view by the subtending leaves. Bracts 1-1.5 mm long, linear or lanceolate, villous on the outer surface. Bracteoles 2 or none, 1 mm long, linear, villous. Flowers stipitate, 1.5-2 mm long: calyx-tube 0.25 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, filled with a fleshy disc, glabrous: sepals about 0.5 mm long, ovate, acute, concave on the inner side, gibbous at the apex, tomentose on the outer surface. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0.5 mm long: lamina orbicular, cucullate: claw very short, oblong. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic, glabrous. Style together with the obtusely 3-lobed stigma 0.5 mm high. Fruit about 4 mm long, rotundate, glabrous, with a small base of the calyx on the summit.