Thesium paronychioides Sond.

A small slender plant about 5 in. high; branches numerous from the apex of a very slender erect rootstock, slender, prominently verrucose when dry, otherwise glabrous; leaves few, linear, obtuse or subacute, 2 1/2-3 lin. long, flat on the upper surface, glabrous; flowers loosely spicate; bracts ochreate, scale-ike, broadly ovate, acutely acuminate, sharply keeled, with very broad hyaline scurfy margins; bracteoles 2, similar to the bracts but a little shorter; perianth 3/5-4/5 lin. long; segments lanceolate, subacute, about 1/2 lin. long, deeply hooded, bearded with stout stiff hairs; anthers included in the perianth-tube or slightly exserted, about 1/4 lin. long; stigma capitate, sessile or subsessile; fruits ellipsoid-globose, 2 lin. long, strongly 10-ribbed, faintly reticulate between the ribs.