Rhagodia spinescens

Divaricately branched shrub to c. 1 m high, branches usually spine-tipped. Leaves opposite or subopposite, usually distinctly petiolate, ovate to obovate or deltoid, sometimes hastate, 5–20 mm long, 2–15 mm wide, mealy grey-green or whitish from a (usually dense) covering of vesicular hairs. Inflorescence a slender, rather sparse panicle or spike-like; perianth densely mealy on outer surface, tepals c. 1.5 mm long, becoming enlarged (to c. 2.5 mm long) with a thickened midrib, and spreading in fruit. Berry 3–4 mm diam., subtended by enlarged fruiting perianth; seed 1.5–2 mm diam., the surface prominently elongate-reticulate. Flowers mostly Jan.–Apr.