Pharnaceum ciliare Adamson

In lax tufts with short woody more or less erect stems with branches 2-5 cm long. Leaves slender, usually ascending, 0.5-1 cm long, not crowded, with deciduous hair-points. Stipules 2-3 mm long, white or brownish, partly adnate to the leaf-base, the edges ciliate with long but not dense hairs, the hairs 1.5 mm long, straight or crisped. Peduncles 6-9 cm long, often purple, with a whorl of small leaves at the top. Inflorescence many-flowered, with slender ascending branches 2 or 3-times dichasial. Pedicels 1-1.5 cm long. Perianth segments 3-3.5 mm long. Anthers white, short. Disc white, of 3 broad thin truncate or emarginate lobes. Stigmas white, flat, broad. Fruit rounded, slightly longer than the perianth. Seeds dark brown, shining but minutely rugose, compressed, with a broad flat border.