Pharnaceum exiguum Adamson

Annual with a basal tuft of leaves and 1-6 sprawling flowering stems, 3-30 cm long, with whorls of leaves. Basal leaves linear-filiform, flat, 0.5-5 cm long, with deciduous hair-points. Stem leaves similar but shorter. Stipules 1 mm long, acute, irregularly lacerate, persistent or sometimes deciduous on the older leaves. Inflorescence with 2-3 branches at the nodes, the ultimate very slender. Pedicels 0.5-2 cm long, spreading but deflexed at the fruiting stage. Perianth segments green 1.5-2 mm long. Disc white or pink, 3-lobed, the lobes very thin, crenulate, soon withering away. Stigmas short. Fruit rounded ovoid, distinctly longer than the perianth. Seeds dark brown, discoid-biconvex, smooth, shining, with a distinct border.