Bauera rubioides

Scrambling, wiry or tangled shrub to c. 2 m high; young stems pubescent, usually with short curled hairs and longer, spreading ones. Leaflets c. narrowly elliptic, 3–15 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, variably pilose to hirsute, at least when young; margin crenate or serrate, rarely entire. Flowers c. 5–20 mm wide, on fine, subglabrous to sparsely hirsute pedicels 1–3 cm long; sepals 5–8, narrowly lanceolate or elliptic, usually toothed 3–6 mm long; petals as many as sepals, obovate, pink or white; stamens c. 20–50, about as long as sepals, pale; ovary superior, styles spreading, slightly shorter than stamens. Capsule bilobed, c. 2–3 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; seeds ellipsoid, c. 1.5–2 mm long, colliculate, c. 8–12 per capsule. Flowers most of year (mainly Sep.–Jan.).