Thesium junceum Bernh. ex Krauss

Stems branched from the base or in the upper part, whip-like, sulcate, glabrous; branches ascending, stiff and often elongated; lower leaves very few, rarely present, terete, about 3/4 in. long, glabrous; flowers arranged in rather slender loose spikes; bracts ochreate, ovate-lanceolate, very acute, 3/4-1 lin. long, keeled, with broad scurfy jagged membranous margins, glabrous; bracteoles 2, shorter than the flower, narrower than the bracts but otherwise similar; perianth about 1 lin. long; segments triangular, acute, 1/2-2/3 lin. long, their inner surface white and fleshy, with a dense apical woolly beard; anthers included in the perianth-tube, 1/4 lin. long; stigma sessile or supported on an extremely short style; fruits ellipsoid-globose, 2 lin. long, 1 1/3 lin. in diam., prominently 10-ribbed, especially in the lower part, faintly reticulate between the ribs.