Selago pustulosa Hilliard

Dwarf woody shrublet c. 300-500 mm tall, virgately well branched, old stems bare, young branches pubescent, hairs up to c. 0.15 mm long ± patent, arranged in longitudinal bands, minute glands as well, sometimes oozing, surface then varnished, closely leafy. Leaves opposite, soon alternate upwards, not fascicled, largest 2-7 x 0.8-1.7 mm, half spreading to slightly recurved, tips sometimes upcurved, linear-oblong to lanceolate, apex acute, apiculate, base not or scarcely narrowed, decurrent, margins entire, plane, texture moderately thick to very thick, in moderately thick leaves midrib raised on lower surface, in very thick ones invisible, the lower surface longitudinally grooved, glandular-punctate, sometimes varnished, both surfaces distinctly pustulate, the pustules (probably raised stomata) whitish. Inflorescence a crowded, many-flowered raceme c. 30-60 x 10-15 mm in flower, scarcely elongating in fruit, solitary at tips of many leafy branchlets. Bract adnate to minute pedicel and extreme base of calyx tube, lowermost (3-)4-7 x 0.8-1.2 mm, linear-lanceolate, acute to very acute, coarse hairs up to 0.3-0.8 mm long on lower margins, backs ± glabrous but increasingly hairy up the raceme, minutely glandular as well on both faces. Pedicel up to c. 0.5 mm long. Calyx 2.7-3.5 mm long, campanulate, subequally 5-lobed roughly halfway to base, coarse spreading hairs up to 0.6-1.1 mm long all over outside together with minute glands, a few sometimes reaching 0.25 mm long, inside minutely glandular all over, a few acute hairs c. 0.5 mm long on anticous lobes. Corolla tube 4.5-6 mm long, funnel-shaped, limb 5-6 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes 1.8-2.2 x 1-1.3 mm, anticous lobe 2.25-2.8 x 1.1-1.6 mm, all lobes elliptic, white fading to yellowish. Stamens: posticous filaments (1.8-)2-3.3 mm long, anthers shortly to well exerted, anticous filaments (2-)3-4 mm long, anthers far exerted. Stigma and style c. 4.4-6.7 mm long, style pubescent, hairs glandular or eglandular, sometimes mixed. Ovary c. 1 x 0.5 mm, minutely glandular particularly on upper half. Cocci 2.5-3 x 1.1-1.3 mm, red-brown, smooth, glandular, inner face plane, pair of cocci held within persistent calyx.