Selago seticaulis Hilliard

Dwarf shrublet c. 120-450 mm tall, ± divaricately well branched, branches erect or decumbent, pubescent, hairs up to 0.25-0.8 mm long, patent, young parts leafy. Leaves opposite becoming alternate upwards, not or weakly fascicled, mostly spreading and uncrowded, largest leaves 3.5-9 x 1.2-2 mm, elliptic, apex obtuse to subacute, base slightly narrowed, margins entire, thickened, somewhat revolute, texture thick, venation invisible, glandular-punctate, coarse hairs c. 0.25-1 mm long all over or occasionally hairs few or wanting on upper surface. Inflorescence a crowded terminal spike c. 10-14 x 10-12 mm in first flower, at least 20-30 mm long in fruit (no fully expanded spikes seen), usually solitary at tips of twiglets or very rarely a pair of subsidiary spikes immediately below main one. Bract adnate to whole of calyx tube, lowermost 3.3-6 x 0.7-1.2 mm, oblong, subacute, concave only near base, hairs 0.3-0.8 mm long on margins and back. Pedicels wanting. Calyx 2-3 mm long, campanulate, divided at least halfway into 5 subequal lobes, lobes narrowly triangular, very acute, acute hairs 0.2-0.6 mm long on margins and outer surface, minute globular glands as well. Corolla tube 4.5-6.5 mm long, narrowly funnel-shaped, limb 3.5-6 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes 1.4-2 x 1-1.4 mm, anticous lobe 1.7-2.6 x 1-1.4 mm, all lobes elliptic, white, corolla glabrous or with very minute scattered glandular hairs. Stamens: posticous filaments 1-1.6 mm long, anthers in mouth; anticous filaments 1.5-2.2 mm long, anthers shortly exerted. Stigma and style c. 4.5-8 mm long, style pubescent. Ovary c. 0.8 x 0.4 mm. Cocci 1.6-2 x 0.8-1.2 mm, red-brown, smooth. Flowering between October and December; April and June have also been recorded.