Compilation
Anthospermum randii

Annual or shrubby herb 0.7–2 m. tall; stems mostly sparsely branched, at first densely covered with white spreading hairs but finally glabrescent and with a somewhat peeling epidermis. Leaves in whorls of 3–4 or at least some leaves opposite and also with short undeveloped axillary leafy shoots giving a verticillate appearance; blades linear-lanceolate to linear-oblong, 1–3.5 (–4.7) cm. long, (1–)2.5–3(–7) mm. wide, acute or subacute at the apex, narrowed to the base, revolute, ± discolorous, pubescent or scabrid above and more densely so beneath, particularly on the main nerves which are not markedly whitish; petioles obsolete; stipules with mostly 1 seta 3–5 mm. long from a base 0.5–1 mm. long. Flowers in ± sessile axillary several-flowered clusters, hermaphrodite or unisexual and monoecious or dioecious, 4-merous (hermaphrodite ) or 5-merous (♀); pedicels 0–0.8 mm. long. Male flowers: calyx-tube 0.8–1 mm. long, the lobes minute; corolla yellow or yellowish green, pubescent outside; tube 1.5–3 mm. long; lobes elliptic, 2.6 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; filaments exserted 2–2.5 mm.; rudimentary styles 0.5 mm. long, almost free. Female flowers with corolla-tube 2.3 mm. long, lobes 1.5 mm. long; style 4.7–15 mm. long, joined and glabrous for 0.7–1.5 mm., the branches papillose. Fruit glabrous or pubescent, the cocci 2–3 mm. long, 1–1.2 mm. wide, not crowned with the calyx-limb.