Stenanthera conostephioides

Erect or spreading shrub 20–100(–150) cm high; branchlets finely pubescent. Leaves ascending to spreading, linear to lanceolate, 7–25 mm long, 0.8–2(–3) mm wide, mucronate, glabrous to scabrous-pubescent, convex, lower surface usually glaucous; margins flat to revolute, smooth to scabrous-ciliate. Flowers pendent, solitary; bracts, bracteoles and sepals brown to reddish-brown, obtuse to acuminate; bracts 0.5–10 mm long; bracteoles 6.3–15 mm long; sepals broadly elliptic, 7.7–18 mm long; corolla red; tube cylindric or broader at middle or above, 6.8–14 mm long, shorter than to slightly exceeding sepals, inside with 4 or 5 pubescent ridge-like outgrowths near base, glabrous to sparsely pubescent above; lobes triangular, 5–6.5 mm long, acute, pubescent externally, densely bearded inside toward tip; anthers exserted from corolla tube, style 10–19 mm long. Fruit ovoid, c. 9–11 mm long, green, tinged maroon. Flowers Mar.–Nov.