Pharnaceum subtile E.Mey. ex Fenzl

Annual with flowering stems 3-8 cm high. Basal leaves in a loose rosette, the outer oblong, 0.5-0.8 cm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, obtuse, narrowed at the base to a petiole, the inner linear or linear-oblong 0.6-1 cm long, not petiolate. Stem leaves 1-4, in a whorl, linear, about 1 mm wide. Stipules minute, more or less entire, caducous except on the inflorescence. Flowering stems with 1 or rarely 2 whorls of leaves. Peduncles 2-3.5 cm long. Inflorescence dichasial at the base, the branches pseudoracemose. Pedicels 0.3-0.6 cm long, deflexed at the fruiting stage. Perianth segments 1-1.5 mm long. Disc 3-lobed, very thin and soon withering. Fruit spherical, as long as the perianth. Seeds small, globose-biconvex, dark brown, finely granulate-rugose.