Thesium penicillatum A.W.Hill

Stems erect, longitudinally sulcate, stout, woody, glabrous, branched in the upper part; branches erect, subcorymbose; leaves linear, acutely mucronate, 1-1 1/4 in. long, about 1 lin. broad, keeled below, glabrous, becoming rather coarsely wrinkled when dry; flowers in fairly dense terminal corymbs up to 1 in. in diam.; bracts linear-oblong, subacute, keeled, as long as the flowers, up to 1 lin. broad, purplish, with subtranslucent margins; bracteoles about three-quarters the length of the bracts; perianth 1 1/4 lin. long; segments linear-lanceolate, subacute, about 1 1/4 lin. long, flat, hooded, with the apex and margin clothed with long hairs; anthers 1/8 lin. long, included in the perianth-tube and inserted in front of a large tuft of orange-coloured hairs, which are not united to form a definite ring and are free from the anthers; style 1/8 lin. long or almost absent; fruit with a short stout stalk, ellipsoid, 3 lin. long, rather prominently 5-nerved, with inconspicuous intermediate nerves, conspicuously transversely reticulate between the ribs.