Thesium patulum A.W.Hill

Stems divaricately branched, erect, glabrous; branches slender, elongated, straight, spreading from the stem at an angle of about 45^; leaves present near the forks of the main branches, acicular, acute, 3 1/2-5 lin. long, very slender, sometimes with a few short teeth on the back or on the margins, glabrous; upper leaves each subtending and slightly adnate to a branch, recurved, linear or linear-lanceolate, subacute, up to 2 lin. long, glabrous; flowers loosely arranged in elongated flexuous spikes, solitary or 3 together; bracts much shorter than the flower, lanceolate, subacute, fleshy, about 1 lin. long, glabrous; bracteoles about three-quarters the length of the bracts but otherwise similar; perianth 1-1 3/4 lin. long, with conspicuous external glands; segments lanceolate, subacute, 1-1 1/4 lin. long, the margins and the apex with long stout hairs, with a well-marked ring of hairs at the throat of the tube; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, 3/8 lin. long; filaments as long as the anthers; style stout, 1/4 lin. long; fruits top-shaped at the base, subglobose, 3 1/4 lin. long, fairly prominently 10-ribbed, faintly reticulate between the ribs.