Thesium triflorum L.F.

Small shrub scrambling 1.5–6 m or straggling if unsupported; stem slender and rough with leaf scars below, much branched above, leafy and grading into extensive leafy panicles; branches distinctly ribbed by raised vascular strands terminating in midribs of leaves and bracts.. Leaves all well developed and well spaced, grading into bracts, linear to oblong, sometimes slightly falcate, very variable in size, mostly 10–60x(1–)2–6 mm, smaller on young shoots, acute to obtuse, base slightly narrowed, margins cartilaginous, smooth to minutely scabridulous, 3-nerved, veins slightly raised on both surfaces, smooth to scabridulous.. Flowers subsessile in dichasial cymes composed of 3–many flowers, these further arranged in panicles, in scandent plants pendent with the leaves and bracts reflexed to stand erect in the hanging position; bracts mostly 10–40x1.2–6 mm, leaf-like but sometimes reduced at apex of panicle, adnate ± 1–3 mm to base of peduncle; bracteoles 2, ovate, ± 1–1.5x0.5–1.3 mm, acute, sometimes lowermost pair leaf-like and then up to ± 22x1 mm; primary peduncles ± 6–95 mm long, progressively smaller upwards.. Perianth greenish yellow outside, yellow to cream or white inside; tube 0.7–1 mm long, external glands inconspicuous, broadly ellipsoid; lobes triangular, 1.2–1.4 mm long, subacute, slightly hooded, margins flat, glabrous.. Stamens inserted at base of perianth lobes; filaments 0.3–0.5 mm long, almost hidden by anthers; anthers 0.3–0.5 mm long.. Style 0.5–0.8 mm long; stigma reaching ± base of lobes; placenta twisted.. Fruit orange to red when ripe, ellipsoid-globose to globose, 4–5 mm long, 3–5 mm in diameter, epicarp thin, fleshy, endocarp bony, 5 main veins visible, only slightly raised, some or all branching once at the base, intercostal areas irregularly reticulate; stipe up to 1 mm long.. Fig. 2 (page 8).