Pharnaceum rubens Adamson

A lax decumbent or sprawling shrublet. Stems woody, up to 40 cm long, the older parts with very short axillary branches forming nodular projections. Leaves confined to the younger parts, filiform, 0.5-0.8 cm long, not crowded, deciduous except for the terminal tuft and axillary fascicles. Stipules 2 mm long, entire, acute, usually undulate, the edges with not crowded very fine hairs less than 1 mm long. Inflorescences many, red. Peduncles 5-8 cm long, usually without leaves at the top. Inflorescence branches 4-8, umbellate, half of them again umbellate. Pedicels very slender, 1-2 cm long. Perianth segments 2-3 mm long, very slightly connate at the base. Disc pale-coloured, of 3 very thin broad obtuse or slightly indented lobes. Stigmas broad, white, revolute. Ovary sharply three-angled. Fruit almost spherical, about as long as the perianth.