Compilation
Anthospermum whyteanum

A much-branched shrub or subshrub (0.25–)0.6–2.4 m. tall, similar in habit to the next species in most respects; stems densely covered with much coarser spreading hairs but ultimately glabrescent and the epidermis often peeling on the older stems. Leaves verticillate in whorls of 3 and also with short axillary shoots giving an appearance of more; blades elliptic or narrowly ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 0.3–1.3 cm. long, 1–3 mm. wide, apiculate, narrowed to the base, strongly revolute, mostly densely covered with spreading hairs; stipules with a single seta 2–3 mm. long from a base 0.5 mm. long; petioles obsolete. Flowers in sessile axillary clusters, unisexual and dioecious, apparently single between a pair of bracts and a pair of bracteoles. Calyx-tube obconic, 1.5 mm. long, hairy, the hairs upwardly directed and apical ones 0.5 mm. long beyond the tip of the calyx, hiding the triangular 0.3 mm. long lobes. Corolla greenish white, white, pink or yellowish, sometimes marked dull purple; tube 2 mm. long in ♂ flowers, 0.5 mm. long in ♀ flowers; lobes oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic in ♂ flowers, 2.8 mm. long, 0.8–1.1 mm. wide, oblong-lanceolate and smaller in ♀ flowers, 0.6–0.7 mm. long, 0.2 mm. wide. Filaments exserted 2 mm. in ♂ flowers. Styles rudimentary, free, ± 2 mm. long in ♂ flowers, 8.5 mm. long and joined at the base for 2 mm. in ♀. Fruit hairy or glabrous.