Selago foliosa Rolfe

Perennial herb, no basal parts seen, probably branching only near base into long simple sharply ascending rodlike branches each terminating in an inflorescence, longest branch seen 650 mm, c. 4 mm in diam., villous, hairs up to 0.7-1.5 mm long, patent or recurved, closely leafy, leaves smaller and distant upwards. leaves alternate, fascicled, largest primary ones 10-35 x 3-10 mm, broadly to narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, triplinerved, apex subacute, base only slightly narrowed, margins entire or with up to 6 pairs of small or obscure teeth in upper half, glandular-punctate, both surfaces thinly villous or upper glabrescent, hairs up to 0.7-1 mm long. Inflorescence: flowers in small tight glomerules arranged in a terminal corymb up to c. 40-120 mm in diam., the glomerules remaining compact in fruit. Brad adnate to pedicel, free from calyx, lowermost c. 3.4-4 x 1-1.4 mm, elliptic, lower half deeply concave, keeled and with a pale membranous margin, fringed with hairs up to 0.4-0.6 mm long, sometimes a few hairs also at tip and on keel. Pedicel (lowermost) c. 0.4-1.2 mm long. Calyx c. 3.3-3.7 mm long, tubular, subequally 5-lobed, lobes much shorter than tube, deltoid, acute, hairs up to c. 0.5-0.7 mm long on margins and anticous face, there also minutely glandular, accrescent to enclose the cocci. Corolla tube 3.2-3.7 mm long, funnel-shaped, limb c. 4 mm across the spreading lateral lobes, posticous lobes c. 1-1.7 x 0.7-1.1 mm, anticous lobe c. 1.5-2 x 1-1.2 mm, elliptic, purple (Tyson) or white (Okell). Stamens: posticous filaments 1.3-2 mm long, anthers in throat; anticous filaments 1.5-2 mm long, anthers shortly exserted. Stigma and style c. 2.8-4 mm long, style sparsely and very minutely puberulous. Ovary c. 1 x 0.4 mm. Cocci c. 3 x 1 mm, ± oblong, smooth, light brown.