Glinus bainesii Pax

A more rigid plant than the other species, the young parts covered with spreading hairs and short straight prickles, the older glabrescent. Stems rather stout, pale-coloured, grooved, sparsely branched, up to 40 cm long. Leaves small, in distant or rarely close whorls of 3, oblanceolate, 0.5-1.5 cm long, 0.3-0.5 cm wide, acute or mucronate at the tip, gradually narrowed at the base to a short petiole; the veins not visible except a slightly raised midrib below. Leaves usually with some hairs or prickles on the midrib below and occasionally on the edges which are slightly revolute when dry. Petioles with prickles at the base. Flowers in groups of 3-9, most commonly 6. Pedicels short at first but lengthening at the fruiting stage to 0.8-2 cm, usually with some hairs or prickles. Perianth segments 7-8 mm long, the outer acute, mucronate with hairs or prickles on the back, the inner with broad membranous margins. Stamens 20-30, usually with some simple or 3-fid staminodes. Stigmas 3. Seeds brown, with smooth or obtusely tuberculate ridges; aril small.