Globulariopsis wittebergensis Compton

Dwarf shrublet or perennial herb, taproot simple, stems several tufted from crown, c. 60-150 mm tall, very well branched and twiggy, lower parts rough with leaf scars, upper parts leafy, hairs to 0.2-0.3 mm long mostly in longitudinal bands separated by glabrous decurrent leaf bases, these occasionally hairy as well. Leaves not fascicled, mostly opposite and decussate, bases connate, decurrent down stem, sometimes becoming subopposite or alternate towards tips of twigs, largest leaves 3.5-7 x 1.5-3 mm, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, apex subobtuse, base narrowed, decurrent, margins entire or with a few (c. 1-6) small teeth, texture thick, venation invisible, glabrous or occasionally a few hairs on margins at base. Inflorescence a small glomerule (raceme) up to c. 10 x 10 mm in first flower, solitary at tips of innumerable leafy branchlets. Bract adnate to pedicel only, lowermost c. 4-5 x 1-1.25 mm, more or less lanceolate, tip subobtuse, incurved, hairs up to 0.7-0.8 mm long on margins, to 0.25-0.5 mm on back, particularly lower half, often glabrous towards tip, inside glabrous or with a few scattered hairs to c. 0.2 mm. Pedicels c. 0.1-0.2 mm long. Calyx c. 2-2.5 mm long, campanulate, 5-lobed roughly halfway to base, 2 anticous lobes slightly larger than other three, all lobes deltoid, acute, hairs up to 0.8 mm long on margins, to 0.6-0.7 mm all over outside, inner surface glabrous. Corolla tube c. 4-5 mm long, funnel-shaped, limb c. 5 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes c. 1.5-1.7 x 1.2-1.3 mm, anticous lobe c. 2.25-2.5 x 1.7-1.8 mm, all lobes broadly elliptic, white, possibly with a yellow patch down back of throat but not detected in specimens seen. Stamens', posticous filaments c. 0.9-1.5 mm long, anthers in throat, anticous filaments c. 1.6-2 mm long, anthers shortly exserted. Stigma and style c. 2.5-4 mm long, style puberulous. Ovary, c. 1 x 0.5 mm. Coccus (immature) 1.8 x 1 mm, held within persistent calyx.