Pharnaceum albens L.F.

A straggling woody shrublet, 20-50 cm high, with few or many branches, the younger white, ridged. Leaves alternate, distant, with internodes 0.4-1 cm long, dark green or grey, 0.4-0.7 cm long, squarrose or often falcate, flat or revolute, with deciduous hair points. The older leaves often with small axillary fascicles. Stipules inconspicuous, 1-1.5 mm long, cut into straight or slightly woolly hairs, sometimes yellowish, deciduous on the older leaves. Inflorescence umbellate or compound umbellate, with 3-6 branches, the ultimate pseudoracemose. Peduncle 5-8 cm long, stout. Perianth segments about 3 mm long. Disc 5-lobed, the lobes indented or minutely toothed. Stigmas white, slightly widened to the tip. Fruit rounded 4 mm diam., longer than the perianth. Seeds brown, shining, flattened biconvex, with a distinct border.