Spatalla setacea (R.Br.) Rourke.

An erect, well branched, rounded shrub to 1 m tall, main stem stout and rigid. Branches erect, rigid, at first very sparsely villous, soon becoming quite glabrous, bark reddish when young. Leaves acicular terete, tipped with a long slender hyaline mucro, sparsely villous when young, soon glabrous, 20-30 mm long, loosely imbricate to spreading, straight to slightly incurved. Inflorescence terminal, sessile, globose to ovoid, 1-2.5 cm in diam., a densely congested raceme. Bracts narrowly lanceolate acute, 5 mm long, glabrous, margins ciliate. Involucres subsessile, pedicels 1 mm long. Bracteoles 4-5 mm. Posticous bracteole free, the three anticous bracteoles fused at the base forming the anticous lip of the involucre. Bracteoles lanceolate acute, glabrous to sparsely hispid, margins ciliate. Perianth 10-12 mm long, strongly curved forward in bud. Perianth limbs elliptic, densely villous. Perianth claws villous, widening towards the base where they become glabrous. Perianth tube short, 1 mm long, inflated due to the broadening of the bases of the perianth claws, glabrous. Anthers elliptic, with a rounded black apical boss; pollen pinkish. Style slender, 9 mm long, curved forward at the apex. Pollen presenter cylindric-ellipsoid. Ovary ovoid, 1 mm long, tomentose. Hypogynous scales subulate linear, 1 mm long, pale yellow when fresh. Fruits ovoid, 5 mm long, 2 mm in diam., base acute but broadly pedicellate, style remains at apex forming a prominent beak.