Acrotriche cordata

Spreading shrub to c. 50 cm high; branchlets puberulent. Leaves usually spreading, linear-lanceolate, oblong-elliptic to ovate, 4–14 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, acute or obtuse with blunt callus tip, glabrous, lower surface slightly paler with few subparallel veins, those furthest from midvein with branches radiating to margin; margins plane, smooth. Flowers in c. 3–8-flowered spikes, 2–7 mm long, on previous season's or older wood; bracteoles 1–1.2 mm long; sepals 1.4–1.9 mm long; corolla pale green; tube 2.6–3.6 mm long; lobes 1.2–1.6 mm long; ovary 4–6-locular, style 0.8–1.2 mm long. Fruit depressed-globose, flat-topped, c. 2–3 mm long. Flowers Jul.–Oct.