Pharnaceum elongatum (Dc.) Adamson

Usually low-growing, sprawling or prostrate. Stems 3-25 cm long, branched, woody at the base only, the youngest white. Leaves alternate, crowded especially at the top of the stem, linear-filiform, 0.4-3 cm long, usually spreading. Stipules thin, translucent, cut to the base into narrow multifid lobes or straight hairs, the lobes ending in straight hairs. Stipules with no entire basal part, quite free from the leaf-base, variable in length from short to almost as long as the leaves. Peduncles [as 'peduncels'] 5-25 cm long, slender, usually with a whorl of leaves at the top. Inflorescence branches 3-5, some with whorls of leaves and again branched; the ultimate branches pseudoracemose. Pedicels slender, 0.3-1 cm long, often secund, deflexed at the fruiting stage. Perianth segments about 3 mm long. Disc red or yellow, of 3 or 5 obtuse truncate segments. Stigmas red or yellow, erect, revolute and apparently cylindrical, 1-2 mm long. Fruit ovoid, longer than the perianth. Seeds black, shining, globose-biconvex.