Pharnaceum trigonum Eckl. & Zeyh.

Low-growing in darkish green patches. Stems woody, prostrate, much branched, either in or just above the ground, with many short erect leafy branches 1-2 cm high. Leaves crowded, more or less squarrose, 0.5-0.8 cm long, dark green, rigid, trigonous, hair-pointed. Stipules inconspicuous, opaque, often yellowish, sheathing, with a fringe of distant coarse hairs 1 mm long at the top, the hairs straight, shorter than the sheathing part, sometimes only 1 or 2. Inflorescences slender, forking, with pseudoracemose branches. Peduncle 2-6 cm long. Pedicels slender, 0.5-1 cm long. Perianth segments 3-3.5 mm long, green outside, greenish white inside. Anthers rotund-oblong. Disc of 3 broad crenulated lobes. Stigmas short, thick, less than 1 mm long. Fruit rounded, very slightly longer than the perianth. Seeds shining, subglobose, distinctly bordered.