Pharnaceum microphyllum L.F.

A woody erect straggling shrublet, up to 50 cm high, with few or occasionally many erect or spreading branches, the younger white. Leaves close but not crowded, short, 3-7 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, narrow-elliptical, squarrose or falcate, deciduous on the older parts. Stipules white, cut into long entangled woolly hairs that cover the stem and partly also the leaves, the hairs on a short sheathing basal part. Stipules persistent after leaf-fall. Inflorescences on peduncles 2-10 cm long, with a tuft of woolly stipules but no leaves at the top. Flowers often numerous, more or less umbellate. Perianth segments 3-4 mm long, broad, obtuse. Disc of 3 broad obtuse lobes. Stigmas short, thick, slightly widened to the tip. Fruit almost spherical, slightly longer than the perianth.