Thryptomene micrantha

Spreading to erect shrub, 0.5–1.5 m high. Leaves obovate, 4–6 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, shortly petiolate, slightly concave above, not keeled below; apex rounded. Flowers white, sometimes pinkish in bud, 1–3 in upper leaf axils; pedicel to 1 mm long; hypanthium more or less cylindric, c. 2 mm long, smooth, ribs 10, prominent; sepals slightly larger than petals, ovate, 1–2 mm long; petals ovate, c. 1 mm long; stamens 5, filaments less than 0.5 mm long; ovary small, near summit of tube; ovules 2. Flowers mainly Aug.–Nov.