Tarchonanthus littoralis P.P.J.Herman

Dioecious shrubs or trees, 1-8 m high. Leaves aromatic, alternate, large, oblanceolate, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, rarely obovate, (32-)40-140 x 10-45 mm, discolorous, upper surface bright or dark green, hairy when young, becoming glabrous, reticulate, with glands on margins of reticulations, main vein sunken and hairy, especially in lower half, lower surface densely white-hairy, main and secondary veins conspicuous; apex obtuse to acute, sometimes with curved mucro subapically; base cuneate; margin very often faintly denticulate in upper part, rarely entire. Petiole 5-8(-12) mm long. Synflorescences terminal, paniculate. Male plants: capitula homogamous discoid, 5-10 mm diam., 13-47-flowered; peduncle 2-12 mm long. Involucral bracts densely hairy, fused halfway, 5-lobed; tube 1.5-3.0 mm long; lobes 1.5-2.0 mm long; sometimes with few free, inner bracts. Corolla infundibuliform, glandular and hairy; tube 2.0-3.5 mm long; lobes 5, 1.0-1.5 mm long, papillate, recurved. Anthers 1.0-1.5 mm, exserted, with ovate-triangular, apical appendage, calcarate, caudate, tails ± 0.5 mm long, branched; filaments 1.5-3.0 mm long. Style well exserted, 5-8 mm long, undivided or with 2 small lobes, papillate. Ovary rod-like, 0.5-1.0 mm long, glandular, sterile, septate-hairy. Female plants: capitula homogamous discoid, ± 5 mm diam., mostly 3(-6)-flowered; peduncle 0-4 mm long. Involucral bracts free, 3-6 mm long, in 2 or 3 rows; outer bracts ovate or narrowly lanceolate-ovate, acute; inner elliptic. Corolla infundibuliform, glandular and hairy; tube 1.5-2.0 mm long; lobes 5(6), 0.5-1.0 mm long, papillate, recurved. Style exserted, 2.5-3.5 mm long, with 2 short branches, ± 1 mm long. Ovary elliptic to obovate, 2.5-4.0 mm long, densely septate-hairy and glandular. Cypsela obovate to elliptic, ribbed, 3-5 mm long, densely, white, septate-hairy and glandular. Pappus absent. Flowering time: December to July with a peak from February to March (July) (late summer).