Phylica recurvifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.

A moderately branched shrub, about 40 cm high. Branches usually virgate. Branchlets slender, clothed with grey pubescence. Leaves 1.2-1.7 cm long: lamina linear, attenuate, rounded at base, erect-spreading, somewhat recurved, with closely revolute margins almost covering the lower surface; upper surface minutely scabrid, at first covered with silky pubescence: petiole about 2 mm long. Inflorescence a lax spike about 2 cm long. Bracts leaf-like, about 6 mm long, linear, with revolute margins, pubescent on both sides except on the basal part of the upper surface. Bracteoles 2, similar but slightly shorter. Flowers 3 mm long, with a dense covering of silky, white hairs on the outside, glabrous within: calyx-tube 1.5 mm deep, campanulate: sepals 1 mm long, ovate-deltoid, acute, with a prominent midrib on the inner surface. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0.75 mm long: lamina rotundate, deeply concave, with incurved margins: claw very short. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary broadly obconic. Style 1 mm long, trigonous, slender, narrowed into an entire stigma. Fruit rotundate, tapered at base, about 5 mm long, subtrilobed, sparsely pilose or glabrous, chestnut-brown, with a small depressed area on the summit.