Pharnaceum incanum L.

Most commonly in many-stemmed bunches, occasionally prostrate. Stems 2-20 cm long, or rarely up to 40 cm, woody at the base, little or not branched. Leaves alternate, scattered or crowded, slender, filiform, 1-2.5 cm long, usually spreading, with a deciduous hair point 2 mm long. Stipules thin, translucent, 1-5 mm long, partly adnate to the leaf-base but not sheathing, the upper part and sides with many fine straight spreading hairs or very narrow lobes ending in hairs. Peduncles stout, 5-12 cm long, usually with a whorl of small leaves at the top. Inflorescence branches 3-5, often stout, with-whorls of leaves, often dichasially branched but not regularly so. Perianth segments 2-2.5 mm long. Anthers broadly oblong. Disc of 3, or less often 5, obtuse white lobes. Stigmas white, flat, not revolute. Fruit rounded, about as long as the perianth. Seeds brown or black, shining slightly compressed biconvex.