Selago cedrimontana Hilliard

Perennial herb or shrublet (no basal parts seen), loosely and more or less virgately branched, stems straggling to suberect, longest seen c. 350 mm, densely glandular-puberulous (most easily seen on young parts), delicate acute patent hairs c. 0.3-0.7 mm long as well, young parts leafy. Leaves opposite, soon alternate upwards, not or scarcely fascicled, ascending, largest leaves 6-12 x 1.5-2.2 mm, oblong-lanceolate, apex subacute, base slightly narrowed, margins entire, thickened, revolute, texture thick, venation invisible, acute hairs up to 0.25-0.6 mm long scattered all over, densely glandular-puberulous as well especially when young, not glandular-punctate. Inflorescence a crowded terminal spike c. 12-14 x 12-14 mm in first flower, elongating to c. 20-60 mm in fruit, often solitary, sometimes a pair of subsidiary spikes immediately below the primary one. Bract adnate to whole of calyx tube, lowermost 6-8 x 0.7-1.1 mm, linear-lanceolate, acute, inner face slightly concave near base, both surfaces densely glandular-puberulous, hairs up to 0.1-0.25 mm long, very occasionally an acute hair c. 0.3 mm long on margins. Pedicel either wanting or up to c. 0.1 mm long. Calyx 3.5-4 mm long, campanulate, subequally 5-lobed more than halfway to base, lobes narrowly triangular, very acute, densely glandular-puberulous, hairs to c. 0.1-0.2 mm long, delicate acute hairs to 0.3-0.5 mm long on margins. Corolla tube 5.5-7 mm long, narrowly funnel-shaped, limb 4-6 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes 1.7-2.1 x 1-1.4 mm, anticous lobe 2-3 x 1.2-1.5 mm, all lobes oblong-elliptic, white, backs of lobes and outside of tube puberulous with a mixture of acute and gland-tipped hairs. Stamens: posticous filaments 1-1.6 mm long, anthers very shortly exerted or in mouth; anticous filaments 2-2.8 mm long, anthers shortly exerted. Stigma and style c. 6.3-7.2 mm long, style pubescent. Ovary c. 0.8 x 0.4 mm. Cocci 2.25-2.5 x 1-1.3 mm, red-brown, slightly rugulose. It flowers in late summer (January to April) whereas the other two flower in spring.