Choretrum pauciflorum

Decumbent or ascending shrub to c. 0.5(–1) m high; branchlets many, terete, hardly striate, glabrous, few-branched, arising from a woody rhizome or rootstock; flowering branchlets 1–1.5 mm diam., spike-like. Leaves alternate, triangular-subulate, 0.5–1(–2) mm long, appressed to slightly spreading, sessile, apex weak, dry, caducous. Inflorescences 1-flowered on upper stems; pedicels to c. 1 mm long; bract leaf-like; bracteoles 8–10 per flower, upper 4 closely subtending flower, margins fimbriate or dentate. Flowers cylindric; tepals 5, triangular-ovate, c. 1 mm long, obtuse, white to cream, appressed when dry, persistent; stamens with posterior hair-like appendages, anthers subsessile, lobes more or less equal. Drupe globose, 4–5 mm long, green. Flowers mainly spring (but spasmodically throughout the year).