Sheilanthera pubens I.Williams

Shrubs 0.3-0.4 m tall, dense, rounded, spreading, single-stemmed at base. Branches numerous, short, spreading, glabrous, often dichotomous; bark brown, smooth, leaf scars not very prominent. Branchlets numerous, short, fairly erect, pubescent, light brown in colour. Leaves 6-9 mm long including the 1 mm long petiole, 2-2.5 mm broad, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, alternate, spreading; margins revolute, thick, with large immersed gland dots adjacent to small glandular tumuli; adaxial surface convex glabrous with a shallow median groove; abaxial surface densely pubescent in two grooves adjacent to the conspicuous gland-dotted midrib; new leaves are normally villous with stipitate glands having reddish resinous tips. Inflorescence terminal 1-3 nate, 9 mm diam.; petals pink fading to white. Bract 3.3 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, lanceolate; apex sub-acute with several stipitate glands; margins villous-ciliate with stipitate glands; adaxial surface villous, somewhat concave; abaxial surface densely crisped pubescent; midrib slightly gibbous towards the apex. Bracteoles two, 3 mm long, 1 mm broad, lanceolate; apex acute with a stipitate gland; margins crisped ciliate with stipitate glands; adaxial surface sparsely pubescent with one to three gland-dots towards the apex; abaxial surface villous. Calyx pubescent with scattered stipitate glands. Calyx lobes five, 3.3-3.5 mm long, 1.7-2.5 mm broad, ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, pubescent; apex and upper margins with sticky stipitate glands; margins villous ciliate. Petals five, 6 mm long overall; limb 3 mm long, 3.8-4.5 mm broad, fan-shaped, thinly villous below, spreading; claw 3 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, linear, erect. Staminodes absent, there is no space between the erect claw and the narrow rim of the disc. Filaments five, becoming 2 mm long, erect, glabrous, acicular, reddened. Anthers five, 1.2 mm long, 1 mm broad, wine-coloured, rather thinly pubescent, apical gland sessile. Pollen 38 µ long, 16 µ broad, oblong. Disc obvallate, exceeding the ovary by a long way, wine-coloured, sinuate, level, exudes nectar. Stigma 5-lobed, 0.3 mm diam., capitellate, dark green. Style becoming 1.5 mm long, glabrous, erect, wine-coloured. Ovary 5-carpellate, ±0.5 mm long, ±0.7 mm diam., densely pubescent; each lobe with a globose apical gland. Fruit and seed not seen.