Phylica montana Sond.

A moderately branched shrub, about 1.5 m high, rigid in the lower parts, often with virgate branches. Branchlets wiry, clothed with very short, grey pubescence. Leaves usually 8-14 mm long: lamina linear-lanceolate to linear, acute, subcordate at base, erect-spreading, slightly recurved at the apex, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface closely and finely tubercled, at first silky pubescent: petiole about 1 mm long. Capitula about 8 mm wide, rotundate or orbicular, subtended by several leaves. Bracts 3-4 mm long, linear or oblong in the lower half and hastate in the upper, tomentose on the dorsal surface. Bracteoles 5-12, imbricate, 3-3.5 mm long, oblong-lanceolate to acicular. Flowers 3.5-5 mm long, shortly pedicellate, silky pubescent upon the outer surface: calyx-tube 1.5-2 mm deep, cyathiform, lined in the lower half with a fleshy disc: sepals 1.5-2 mm long, ovate or deltoid, acuminate, angular-convex on the upper half, sometimes minutely puberulous on the angle. Petals inserted shortly within the mouth of the tube, 0.5-0.75 mm long, setaceous, incurved at the apex, often absent or a few only present. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary broadly obconic. Style 0.5 mm high, conical. Stigma with 3 very short and obtuse lobes. Fruit 6-7 mm long, obovate-rotundate, wrinkled, sparsely puberulous, chestnut-brown, with a small depression on the summit.