Phylica tubulosa Schltr.

A dwarf, moderately branched shrub, with ascending, wiry branches. Branchlets rather slender, with a dense covering of short, white tomentum. Leaves very crowded, 3-5 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, slightly incurved, linear-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or tipped with an acute callus, cordate at base, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface or nearly so; upper surface smooth, at first pubescent on the margins and at the apex. Petiole 1 mm long. Capitula hemisphaeric, few-flowered, about 8 mm wide, subtended by a few short leaves. Bracts about 3 mm long, foliaceous, densely villous on the outer surface and lower half of the inner. Bracteoles 2, 1.5 mm long, linear densely villous. Flowers shortly stipitate, 4-4.5 mm long, covered outside with short tomentum: calyx-tube 2.5 mm deep, oblong-tubular: sepals 1 mm long, erect-spreading, ovate, glabrous on the inner surface, with a slight keel down the middle. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0.5 mm long: lamina cordate, obtuse, cucullate: claw very short, cuneate. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic. Style 1.25-2 mm long, slender. Stigma not widened, short.