Vexatorella amoena (Rourke) Rourke

A small erect to suberect, occasionally sprawling, rather sparsely branched shrub, 1-1.5 m in height with a single main trunk 30-50 mm in diam. Flowering branches sparsely and minutely crisped, soon glabrous, 1.5-2.0 mm in diam. Leaves obovate to spathulate-elliptic, 15-30 mm long, 5-11 mm wide, entire, apex obtuse with a single thickened callus; petiolate to subpetiolate, glabrous, glaucous, coriaceous. Inflorescence a solitary globose, pedunculate capitulum, 15-25 mm in diam., with a small collar of lanceolate-acuminate bracts at the junction of the stem apex and base of peduncle. Capitula containing 18-35 flowers, lacking a surrounding involucre of sterile bracts. Receptacle ovoid, 4-5 mm in diam. Floral bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 8-10 mm long, densely lanate, enlarging and becoming woody in post-pollination phase. Perianth 12-18 mm long, straight, outer surface densely villous, tube quadrangular, glabrous, 2-3 mm long; claws opening equally at anthesis; limbs lanceolate-cymbiform, 2 mm long, densely tomentose. Style terete, straight, 14-16 mm long, very sparsely puberulous, dark carmine. Pollen presenter clavate, 2 mm long. Ovary oblong, 1 mm long, puberulous. Hypogynous scales subulate-filiform, 2 mm long. Fruit an ovoid, puberulous to glabrous achene 6 mm long, 4 mm wide. Flowering takes place between September and November. The sweetly scented flowers are pink to pale carmine.