Olax stricta

Erect, glabrous, often yellowish shrub to c. 1.5 m high; young branches striate, often minutely papillose. Leaves linear, oblong or narrow-elliptic, mostly 5–15 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, sometimes larger on main branches, apex acute or obtuse, often mucronate and slightly uncinate, flat or concave above. Flowers solitary; pedicel to c. 1.5 mm long; calyx to c. 0.5 mm long, slightly undulate, enlarging after flowering to enclose fruit; petals 5 or 6, 3–5 mm long, free or partly fused, white or yellowish; stamens c. 1.5 mm long, staminodes c. 2 mm long, hirsute in lower half. Drupes obovoid to ellipsoid, 4–8 mm long. Flowers throughout the year.