Rhytidosporum procumbens

Procumbent to erect subshrub, to c. 40 cm high, young stems finely pubescent. Leaves subsessile, linear to narrowly obovate, 5–18 mm long, 1–3.5 mm wide, acute, commonly 3-toothed at apex, sparsely pubescent to glabrous, often slightly scabrous; margins thickened to recurved. Flowers solitary (rarely paired) in upper axils; pedicel 2–7 mm long, elongating to c. 15 mm long and deflexing in fruit; sepals narrowly lanceolate, 2–5 mm long, often purplish; petals free, elliptic, 3–8 mm long, white or flushed mauve outside; stamens slightly shorter than petals. Capsule 2-locular, elliptic or obcordate, c. 5 mm long, 7 mm wide; seeds elliptic, c. 2 mm long, brown, deeply wrinkled. Flowers Aug.–Nov.