Selago capitellata Schltr.

Perennial herb, stems c. 200-400 mm tall, erect, several tufted from a thick, woody somewhat stoloniferous stock, often simple (when regenerating after fire?), sometimes branched, minutely puberulous, hairs up to 0.1 mm long, retrorse, closely leafy. Leaves fascicled, lowermost sometimes opposite or subopposite, otherwise alternate, primary leaves 10-18 x 1-2 mm, narrowly elliptic or linear-oblong, apex acute, base narrowed, margins plane (though sometimes revolute when dry), entire or rarely with a few tiny teeth, midrib channelled above, not raised below, glandular-punctate. Inflorescence a long very narrow terminal panicle, lateral branchlets many, tending to lie on one side of axis, either simple or lower ones branched, peduncles nude or nearly so, each terminating in a few-flowered raceme c. 5-10 x 5 mm in fruit, flowers remaining crowded. Bract adnate to minute pedicel and lower part of calyx tube, lowermost 2-2.8 x 0.7-1.3 mm, broadly elliptic, ± obtuse, deeply concave, hairs 0.1-0.15 mm long on margins, very few on keels or wanting there. Pedicels minute. Calyx 1.1-1.4 mm long, somewhat obliquely campanulate, lobed less than halfway, 2 anticous lobes larger than other three, pubescent outside, longest hairs on margins, up to 0.15-0.3 mm. Corolla tube 2.1-2.5 mm long, funnel-shaped, limb 3-5 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes 1-1.7 x 0.5-1.1 mm, anticous lobe 2-2.6 x 0.8-1.7 mm, all lobes elliptic, mauve-blue fading to white. Stamens: posticous filaments 1.2-2.7 mm long, anticous filaments 2-2.3 mm long, all anthers well exerted. Stigma and style c. 2.2-3.8 mm long, style almost glabrous. Ovary c. 0.5-0.8 x 0.4-0.6 mm. Cocci 1.1-1.3 x 0.7-0.8 mm, light brown, smooth.