Templetonia egena

Many-stemmed, leafless, glabrous shrub to 3 m high; branches green or yellow, ± terete, usually distinctly ridged. Leaves reduced to minute scales to 1 mm long, with a mass of fine dark glandular processes in the axils; stipules absent. Flowers mostly 1 or 2 per axil, in lax terminal racemes; pedicels glabrous, to 1.75 mm long; bracteoles paired, ovate, attached near apex of pedicel; calyx to 4 mm long, glabrous except for hairs on margins of lobes; ovary ± sessile, glabrous. Pod narrowly oblong-elliptic, often obliquely so, 1.3–2.5 cm long, 0.6–1 cm wide, mostly 1-seeded; seeds elliptic, light brown. Flowers Aug.–Sep.