Tetratheca ciliata

Slender shrub to c. 1 m high; stems glabrous and minutely tuberculate to densely hairy with hairs usually erect, from very short to c. 1 mm long. Leaves alternate, opposite or in regular whorls of 3–5, narrow-elliptic to orbicular, 2–20 mm long, 1–15 mm wide, acute or obtuse, margins flat to revolute, usually undulate, both surfaces glabrous or with a few fine, erect hairs particularly near margins. Inflorescences 1–3-flowered; peduncles 3–12 mm long, glandular-hairy (rarely almost absent) with shorter underlying acicular hairs. Sepals broad-ovate, 1.5–3 mm long, upper part strongly reflexed, deciduous; petals c. obovate 6–18 mm long, deep lilac-pink, rarely white, deciduous; ovary velvety, ovules 4. Fruit obovate to broad-obovate, 4–8 mm long; seeds more or less obovoid, 2–3 mm long, hairy, appendage cream. Flowers Aug.–Dec.