Thesium mukense A.W.Hill

Perennial herb with woody rhizomes ± 3–4 mm in diameter; vegetative buds ± 2 mm long; stems yellow-green to grey-green or somewhat glaucous, in small tufts, 10–30 cm tall, erect, well-branched from the base or a little higher, leafy, shallowly ribbed by decurrent leaves.. Leaves rather fleshy, ± ascending, primary ones on main stems linear, often rather curved, 10–45x0.6–1.2 mm, shorter upwards and passing into bracts, apex apiculate, smooth.. Flowers solitary in the axil of each bract, 5–14 racemosely arranged at the tips of the branchlets, the inflorescence often terminating in a 3-flowered cymule; bracts adnate to entire pedicel, linear, leaf-like, 5–17x0.6–0.8 mm; bracteoles 2, ± 1.5–5x0.4–0.6 mm; pedicels 1–3.5(–5) mm long.. Perianth green or orange-buff outside, white inside; tube 0.6–1 mm long, external glands ellipsoid, inconspicuous; lobes triangular, 1.2–1.7 mm long, acute, white-bearded from apex.. Stamens inserted at base of perianth lobes; filaments 0.3–0.5 mm long, hidden by anthers; anthers 0.5–0.8 mm long.. Style 0.5–0.7 mm long; stigma reaching top of tube or a little above.. Fruit light yellowish brown to reddish brown, ellipsoid-globose to globose, 3–4 mm long, 2.5–3.5 mm in diameter, strongly ribbed and reticulate; stipe 0.5–1 mm.