Jamesbrittenia tenuifolia branchlets

Woody upper branchlets of Jamesbrittenia tenuifolia are here straight and wispy, only the very young parts near their tips pale green, pre-rigid, still appearing soft.

Leaf fascicles relinquish bright yellow-green colouring for a darker shade also quite soon. Curious long pedicels of what may be future flowers end in what appears to be five narrow sepals only. The plant's mature flowers sometimes bear leaves to near their calyces. Some failed straight leafless branchlets also raise questions.

The solitary half-developed pink purple bud in picture is shaped like a conic section, its developing corolla at the top resembling a folded parachute (Euston-Brown and Kruger, 2023; Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).