Dracophyllum densum

Detailed description

Scrambling sub–shrub or low shrub, 0.3–0.5 m tall. Branches spreading, decumbent or prostrate. Bark on old branches dark grey to brown, deeply fissured, young stems grey to reddish brown. Leaves spirally along branches, imbricate, erect and appressed to stem, old leaves present; lamina sheath 2–5 × 2–4 mm, olive green, membranous, tapering and margin ciliate; lamina 6–22 × 0.7–1.0 mm, linear, olive green, adaxial surface flat, abaxial surface rounded with a keeled apex, surfaces glabrous with a tuft of scabrid hairs at the base on adaxial surface, slightly striated; margins serrulate with 25–30 teeth per 10 mm; apex obtuse to acute. Inflorescence a solitary terminal flower on lateral branchlets, sessile, shorter than leaves, erect, mostly hidden by leaves; flower bract 3.5–7.0 × 2–3 mm, shorter than to equaling flower, foliose, coriaceous to rigid and hard, broadly ovate at base, surfaces glabrous with a tuft of scabrid hairs at base of adaxial surface, margins serrulate, apex obtuse to acute. Sepals 3.5–5.7 × 1.5–2.0 mm, lanceolate, equaling corolla tube, top half pubescent on adaxial surface; margins toothed; apex subacute to obtuse. Corolla white; corolla tube 3.5–5.0 × 1.0–1.5 mm, cylindrical; corolla lobes shorter than corolla tube, 1.5–2.0 × 1.0–1.3 mm, ovate–triangular to triangular; spreading horizontally to reflexed, apical ridge present, apices acute; adaxial surface papillate. Stamens inserted on corolla tube in upper third, filaments 0.5–0.55 mm long; anthers included, rectangular, light yellow, 1 mm long. Ovary 1–2 × 1.0–1.4 mm, obovate, apex truncate; nectary scales 0.9–1.0 × 0.6 – 0.8 mm, rectangular, apices retuse to irregularly toothed; style included, 1.5–1.55 mm long, glabrous, lengthening in fruit; stigma five–lobed. Fruit sessile, 1.3–2.0 × 1–2 mm, light brown, depressed–obovoid to obovoid, apex truncate, glabrous. Seeds 0.45–0.5 mm long, ovoid,light brown, testa slightly reticulate.