Gaudium multicaule

Spreading shrub, branched near base, to 1.5 m high; bark on smaller stems smooth, shedding in stringy strips. Leaves linear or narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 2–10 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, glabrous on upper surface, silky on lower surface; apex acute, incurved; margins flat to incurved. Flowers 6–8 mm diam.; hypanthium c. 2 mm long, silky or silky on lower half, glabrous on upper; pedicel to 1 mm long; sepals triangular, c. 1 mm long, glabrous on outer surface (occasionally with ciliate margins), persisting on fruit; petals 2–2.5 mm long, white or flushed pink; ovary 3-locular, apex shortly silky all over. Fruit deciduous, hemispherical, 3–3.5 mm diam., surface silky to sparsely silky (finally glabrous); seeds c. 1 mm long, with a reticulate surface pattern. Flowers Oct.–Nov.