Thamnea uniflora (L.) Sol. ex Brongn.

A slender much branched undershrub. Leaves sessile, closely appressed, imbricate, lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, trigonous, bluntly keeled on the dorsal surface, glabrous. Flowers terminal, solitary, sessile, subtended by slightly enlarged thin involucral leaves. Calyx-tube obconic: calyx-lobes imbricate, lanceolate, bicarinate, scarious, glabrous. Petals glabrous, consisting of an oblong claw widening upwards into an ovate obtuse white lamina. Anthers oblong-linear, reaching to the upper half of the petals. Ovary inferior, capped with a disc with an elevated margin, uni-or bilocular, 8-ovulate: styles connate throughout, reaching to the upper half of the petals: stigmas united. Fruit turbinate-ellipsoid, slightly sulcate, 1-seeded.