Wittsteinia vacciniacea

Trailing or sprawling shrub to c. 40 cm high, branchlets puberulous, rooting near base. Leaves spreading, elliptic to obovate, 4–52 mm long, 2.5–30 mm wide, obtuse to acute, sparsely puberulous on margins and towards base, dark green with impressed venation above, pale whitish-green and obscurely veined below; margins serrate; axils with a tuft of long brown hairs. Flowers bisexual (?some cleistogamous), pendent, fragrant, 1–3 in axils; bracts 3–6, 1.5–3 mm long; calyx lobes 2–3.5 mm long; corolla pale green; tube 4.5–7 mm long; lobes triangular, slightly recurved, 2–3 mm long, margins undulate ± crenate; anthers slightly exserted. Fruit globose c. 5–10 mm long, greenish-white, calyx lobes persistent; seeds c. 6–12, ellipsoid, c. 2 mm long, shallowly pitted. Flowers Nov.–Jan.