Phylica trachyphylla D.Dietr.

A much branched shrub, 60-90 cm high, with ascending, wiry branches. Branchlets rather slender, pilose and very shortly tomentose. Leaves 8-12 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, slightly incurved, lanceolate, tipped with an acute callus, rounded at base, with revolute margins covering most of the lower surface; upper surface smooth up the middle, coarsely tubercled and at first pilose on the margins: petiole about 2 mm long. Capitula 1.3-1.5 cm wide, hemisphaeric, surrounded by many leaves. Bracts of the outer flowers foliaceous, about 8 mm long. Bracts of the inner flowers 7-9 mm long, filiform, densely villous on the outer surface. Bracteoles 2, similar but slightly shorter. Flowers stipitate, 5.5-6 mm long, densely covered outside with long white hairs: calyx-tube 2 mm deep, cyathiform: sepals 1.75 mm long, lanceolate; inner surface convex, with a dense beard of long hairs shortly above the base and down the lower margins, scabridous on the upper parts. Petals inserted on the upper half of the tube, 0.75 mm long: lamina rotundate, very slightly concave, with long cilia on the upper margin: claw about as long, linear. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic. Style 1 mm long, columnar. Stigma clavate.