Selago ramosissima Rolfe

Dwarf rounded woody shrublet c. 100-250 mm tall, virgately very well branched, only old main stems nude, branches puberulous, hairs up to 0.1 mm long, closely leafy, dead leaves long persistent. Leaves opposite becoming alternate upwards, not fascicled, largest 2-3.8 x 0.4-0.8 mm, mostly strongly appressed, only old lowermost leaves sometimes ± spreading, linear-oblong, triquetrous, apex obtuse, base not narrowed, decurrent, margins entire, plane, texture thick, venation invisible, but lower surface distinctly longitudinally ridged when dry, glandular-punctate, sometimes oozing, otherwise glabrous except on decurrent part. Inflorescence a relatively few-flowered glomerule (raceme) c. 5-12 x 6-7 mm, not elongating in fruit, each solitary at tip of innumerable leafy branchlets, old fruiting glomerules overtopped by new growth. Bract adnate to pedicel and base of calyx, lowermost 3-4 x 0.8-1 mm, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, glandular-punctate, hairs up to 0.2-0.5 mm long on lower margins, 0.2-0.4 mm long on lower back together with minute glandular hairs, these also present on inner face. Pedicel c. 0.1-0.2 mm long. Calyx 1.8-2.6 mm long, campanulate, 5-lobed less than halfway to base, two anticous lobes very slightly broader than other three, hairs up to 0.25-0.4 mm long on margins and all over outside, minute glandular hairs also present both inside and outside. Corolla tube 2.5-3.5 mm long, funnel-shaped, limb 4-5 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes 1.4-1.8 x 0.8-1.1 mm, anticous lobe 2-2.5 x 1-1.2 mm, all lobes oblong-elliptic, white. Stamens: posticous filaments 1.7-2.2 mm long, anticous filaments 2-3.3 mm, all anthers far exerted. Stigma and style c. 3-4 mm long, style glabrous or with a very few minute globular glands and/or an occasional acute hair. Ovary c. 0.8 x 0.5 mm, glabrous or very nearly so. Cocci 1.7-2 x 1.4-1.5 mm, red-brown, smooth, inner face plane, only one third of coccus fertile, rest bone-hard tissue, pair of cocci held within the persistent calyx.