1 "Bushy shrub or small tree; flowers many, in racemes crowded at end of branches and longer than the leaves, rarely solitary; bracts caducous; leaves broad-elliptic or obovate." "Monotoca elliptica" 1 "Compact low shrubs; flowers solitary or in few-flowered spikes shorter than the leaves; bracts usually persistent; leaves oblong, ovate to rotund or narrow-elliptic." 2 2 "Leaves with aristate tip; petiole yellow-green, scabrous; flowers in clusters of 2–5." "Monotoca scoparia" 2 "Leaves with callous tip; petiole pink or red, glabrous; flowers solitary or two together." 3 3 "Erect shrub more than 30 cm high; leaves narrow-oblong or narrow-elliptic; corolla tube 0.5–0.8 mm long; ovary oblong-cylindrical." "Monotoca ledifolia" 3 "Prostrate or ascending shrub to 30 cm high; leaves broad-ovate or oblong or more or less circular (particularly early seasonal growth); corolla tube 1–1.3 mm long; ovary depressed-globose" "Monotoca rotundifolia"