Pentachondra pumila

Prostrate to decumbent mat-forming shrub to c. 10 cm high, rooting at the nodes; branchlets glabrescent. Leaves crowded, erect to suberect, oblong to elliptic, 3–6 mm long, 0.5–2.5 mm wide, obtuse, glabrous, flat or slightly concave, lower surface glabrous with 3–7 veins; margins smooth. Flowers bisexual, ± sessile, on hardened current or previous season's wood; bracts, bracteoles and sepals ovate to ovate-orbicular, obtuse; bracts 0.4–1 mm long; bracteoles c. 0.6–1 mm long; sepals c. 1.7–2 mm long; corolla white, becoming brownish externally; tube narrowly urceolate, c. 4–5.5 mm long; lobes recurved to revolute, densely bearded, c. 2–2.5 mm long, style 1–2 mm long. Fruit globose to obovoid, 5–8 mm long, red, crowned by the persistent style and sometimes by the shrivelled corolla. Flowers Nov.–Jan.