Thesium microcephalum A.W.Hill

Branches subterete, glabrous; branchlets twiggy; leaves fairly dense, narrowly lanceolate, subacute, 1 1/4-2 lin. long, about 1/2 lin. broad, thick and fleshy, rounded on the lower surface, flat or concave above, glabrous; flowers few in a fairIy dense cluster at the apex of each shoot; bracts shorter than the flowers, reddish, similar to the leaves, fleshy, finely fimbriate on the lower part of the margins, otherwise glabrous; bracteoles nearly as long as the bracts and slightly keeled; perianth about 1 1/4 lin. long; segments lanceolate, obtuse, 2/3 lin. long, reddish outside, hooded, with an apical beard and hairy margins; anthers exserted from pockets inside the perianth-tube, 1/4 lin. long; style 1/4 lin. long, reaching to just above the base of the anthers; stigma capitate; fruits oblong-ovoid, 2 lin. long, strongly 10-ribbed, coarsely reticulate between the ribs.