Philotheca trachyphylla

Shrub or small, spreading tree to c. 7 m high; branchlets glabrous, glandular-verrucose, lacking dark, stipule-like excrescences. Leaves oblong-elliptic to elliptic or narrow-obovate, 30–50 mm long, 5–9 mm wide, apex acute to rounded, shortly mucronate, slightly discolorous, margins slightly recurved and minutely crenate. Inflorescences axillary, 1–3-flowered, peduncle not apparent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals deltoid, c. 1 mm long; petals elliptic, 6–7 mm long, white, glabrous (but often papillose within), not persisting in fruit; anthers glandular beneath white apiculum; ovary glabrous, carpels united along their outer margin by a thin layer of pericarp. Follicles hardly beaked, at first united, appearing as a c. spherical capsule, splitting apart at maturity; seed flattened-ellipsoid, c. 3 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Nov.