Philotheca angustifolia

Shrub to c. 50 cm high; branchlets with dark, stipule-like excrescences and large oil glands, with hairs in narrow grooves between leaf decurrencies. Leaves c. terete, or obovate and flat or concave. Inflorescences terminal, 1–4-flowered, each pedicel without an obvious peduncle. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. deltoid, c. 1 mm long; petals ovate, 5–8 mm long, white, usually with pink midrib, minutely pilose to glabrous inside, glabrous outside, persisting in fruit; anthers not glandular beneath white apiculum; ovary pilose in upper half, carpels free for most of their length. Follicles shortly beaked, c. 3 mm long; seed subreniform, c. 2.5 mm long.