Stackhousia pulvinaris F.Muell.

Glabrous, mat-like perennial to 3 cm high and 20 cm diam., sometimes in groups to 3 m diam., with many short intricate branches. Leaves linear-obovate, obtuse, to 10 mm long. Flowers solitary, subsessile in uppermost leaf axil. Hypanthium 0.5-0.9 mm long. Sepals 0.7-1.2 mm long, entire, obtuse. Corolla white to yellow; tube 3.3-5.6 mm long; lobes 2.5-3.8 mm long, obtuse to broadly acute. Gynoecium 3-partite. Cocci 3, broadly obovoid, c. 2.5 mm long, rugose, glabrous; basal cavity small, shallow.

Grows in alpine herbfields and subalpine grasslands, often in small depressions or associated with margins of bogs and swamps.