Selago dolichonema Hilliard

Shrublet up to c. 1 m tall, stems pubescent, hairs up to 0.1-0.2 mm long, ± patent, closely leafy. Leaves fascicled, alternate, largest primary leaves c. 1.8-3 x 1 mm (axillary leaves c. 1.5-3.5 x 0.5-0.8 mm), deltoid (axillary linear-oblong), apex acute or subacute, often bluntly apiculate, base broad, margins entire, revolute, texture thick, midvein raised on lower surface of primary leaves, glandular-punctate, otherwise glabrous except for fringe of minute hairs on lower margins of primary leaves. Inflorescence terminal, composed of few-flowered crowded spikes further crowded into a corymbose panicle c. 20-30 x 20-30 mm. Bract adnate to extreme base of calyx tube, lowermost 1.8-2.6 x 0.6-1 mm, lanceolate, acute, concave, hairs up to 0.15-0.2 mm long on margins and lower part of back. Pedicels wanting. Calyx 1.5-2 mm long, campanulate, subequally 5-lobed more than halfway to base, lobes narrowly triangular, acute, strongly keeled, hairs up to 0.1-0.2 mm long on margins and outer surface, minutely glandular as well. Corolla tube 2-3 mm long, funnel-shaped, limb 3-4.2 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes 1-1.2 x 0.8-0.9 mm, anticous lobe 1.5-2 x 1-1.2 mm, all lobes oblong-elliptic, white. Stamens: posticous filaments c. 2.2 mm long, anticous filaments 2.7-3 mm long, all anthers far exerted. Stigma and style c. 3-3.8 mm long, style pubescent. Ovary c. 0.5 x 0.3 mm. Cocci c. 1.8 x 1 mm (few seen), brown, rugulose, inner face almost flat.