Pharnaceum aurantium (Dc.) Druce

A sprawling or suberect shrublet, 10-80 cm high, with lax branching. Young stems white or pale-coloured. Leaves not crowded, ascending, 1-2 cm long, flat, revolute or rolled, the hair-point deciduous leaving a short mucro. Stipules 2-3 mm long, entire but with the top and edges cut into long hairs, the hairs not crowded, straight or crisped or occasionally woolly. Peduncles stout, 8-15 cm long, often purple. Inflorescence umbellate, with 3-6 branches 1-5 cm long, often again branched, the ultimate branches pseudoracemose. Pedicels 0.5-1 cm long, often divaricate. Flowers white or pale yellow, opening quite flat. Perianth segments 3.5-4.5 mm long. Anthers oblong, pale-coloured. Disc of 5 obtuse pale-coloured lobes. Stigmas white, thick, flat or slightly revolute. Fruit round-ovoid, longer than the perianth. Seeds brown, shining, flattened biconvex, with a distinct flattened rim.