Phylica tortuosa E.Mey.

A much branched, rather rigid shrub about 80 cm high with ascending, wiry branches. Branchlets shortly tomentose and villous with buff-coloured hairs. Leaves crowded, mostly 5-7 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, linear, tipped with an acute callus, rounded at base, somewhat incurved, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface tubercled on the margins, at first pilose on the margins and at the apex, at length glabrous: petiole about 1.5 mm long, ascending. Capitula about 1.2 cm wide, hemisphaeric, flat-topped, subtended by many pilose leaves. Bracts 6-9 mm long, narrowly linear or acicular, clothed with long, white hairs. Bracteoles 2, filiform, 3-5 mm long. Flowers about 5 mm long, on a hirsute stipe: calyx-tube about 3 mm deep, tubular-obconic, sparsely hirsute with long, white, caducous hairs: sepals 1-1.5 mm long, ovate, densely clothed on the outer surface with ascending, long, white hairs, angular-convex on the upper half of the inner surface. Petals inserted on the upper half of the tube, 0.75 mm long: lamina orbicular, deeply concave, cucullate: claw very short, cuneate. Anthers elliptic, 2-celled. Ovary narrowly turbinate, sparsely hirsute with long, white, caducous hairs. Style 2.75 mm long, slender. Stigma slightly clavate.