Cryptandra ericoides

Wiry decumbent to erect shrub to c. 60 cm high; young branchlets appressed-pubescent. Leaves often clustered, shortly petiolate, terete, 2–10 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, grooved beneath, glabrous, minutely scabrous; stipules to 1 mm long. Flowers sessile, in terminal clusters of up to c. 10; bracts brown, ovate, c. 1 mm long, acute to acuminate, appressed-ciliate; perianth narrowly campanulate, 3–4 mm long, white, externally with indumentum of fine appressed simple hairs overlaying fine stellate hairs, denser toward tip; sepals c. half as long as hypanthium; petals c. 0.5 mm long; style entire, shortly exceeding hypanthium, hairy in lower third or two-thirds. Fruit c. 2.5 mm long, virtually filling the hypanthium. Flowers Feb.–Jun.