Thesium hystricoides A.W.Hill

A rigid much-branched shrub, with rigid tapered spine-tipped branchlets; branchlets straight, contracted at the base, longitudinally wrinkled, minutely puberulous; leaves very small, triangular, rigidly coriaceous, acute, very slightly puberulous outside; flowers solitary, distinctly pedicellate within the bracts, with a finely pubescent ribbed receptacle; bracts ovate, subacute, glabrous; bracteoles minute; perianth nearly 1 lin. long; segments ovate, obtuse, 3/4 lin. long, with the margin and apex fringed with fairly long hairs; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, 1/4 lin. long; style thick, 1/4 lin. long, reaching to about the middle of the anthers, with a somewhat capitate stigma; fruits ovoid-globose, stipitate, about 2 lin. long, strongly 10-ribbed, finely puberulous, scarcely reticulate between the ribs.