Almaleea subumbellata

Slender, trailing shrub; branches 30–60 cm long; stems terete, young growth with sparse, appressed hairs. Leaves narrowly ovate to oblong, glabrous sometimes with marginal villous hair on lower surface when young, 5–12 mm long, 1–2 mm wide; apex acute, lower surface usually with a broad central purple-brown band; margin slightly incurved; stipules c. 0.5 mm long, closely appressed to stem. Inflorescence a tight, terminal, head-like cluster of 4–10 flowers; bracts 2–3 mm long, outer bracts broadly lanceolate, densely ciliate at base, glabrous at apex, inner bracts narrowly lanceolate and densely hairy; calyx 3.5–5 mm long, base of tube glabrous, lobes hairy; standard 6–8 mm wide; bracteoles attached to pedicel immediately below base of calyx tube, narrowly lanceolate, 2–3 mm long, densely hairy; ovary and base of style densely hairy. Flowers Sep.–Dec.