Acrotriche prostrata

Trailing shrub with main stems prostrate and rooting at intervals, shorter branches prostrate or ascending to c. 15 cm high; branchlets pilose. Leaves widely spreading, often ± horizontal, lanceolate to ovate, 4–16 mm long, 1–8 mm wide, mucronate, flat or convex, glabrous to sparsely pilose, lower surface paler with branching subparallel-palmate veins; margins flat to recurved, pilose. Flowers in dense c. 5–14-flowered spikes, on previous season's or older wood; spike c. 3–8 mm long; outer surface of bracteoles, sepals and corolla lobes usually pilose apically; bracteoles 2–3 mm long; sepals 2.8–4 mm long; corolla light green; tube 5.5–6.5 mm long; lobes 2.3–2.6 mm long; ovary (2–)3-locular, style 2–3 mm long. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, c. 5–7 mm long, greenish, pubescent. Flowers mainly Apr.–Jul.