Olax nana

Low undershrubs, up to 60 cm tall; stem upright, green, ribbed; rootstock woody. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, subsessile; lamina ca. 3-7x 0.6-1.4 cm, oblong-lanceolate, rounded at base, acute at apex, entire, glabrous, glaucous beneath, deep green above, midrib prominent on under-surface. Flowers axillary, solitary, creamy or whitish; pedicels ca. 1.2 cm long, slender; calyx ca. 0.8 mm in length, shallow, margin truncate to irregularly and finely lobed, hyaline; petals 3, ca. 5.5-6.5 mm long, oblong lanceolate, with inturned margin; fertile stamens 3, included, each situated at the centre of a petal; anthers ca. 1.5 mm long, oblong-ovate, not appendaged; filaments rather broad; staminodes 6, glabrous, a pair on each side of the fertile stamen, ca. 2.5 mm long, and exceeding the stamens; ovary ca. 0.9 mm long, ovoid; style terminal, ca. 1.3-2 mm long. Drupes ca. 6 mm across, yellow when ripe, subglobose, apiculate, nearly covered by the accrescent calyx.