Thesium fallax Schltr.

Branches erect, woody, with transversely splitting corky bark; young branchlets light-green, stout, finely sulcate, glabrous; leaves flat, thick and coriaceous, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 1/3-1 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, with rather broad cartilaginous subtranslucent margins, glabrous; flowers in fairly dense solitary capitate clusters at the ends of the shoots; bracts coloured, oblanceolate, subacute, 3-4 lin. long, with a broad fleshy keel in the upper part, margins subtranslucent and greenish-yellow, glabrous; bracteoles similar to the bracts but a little shorter and narrower; perianth 1 1/2 lin. long, fleshy, with conspicuous external glands; segments linear, subacute, fleshy, 1 1/5 lin. long, with an apical beard of hairs and a fringe on the margins; anthers exserted, at the base of the perianth-segments, 1/6 lin. long; stigma sessile.