Thesium pseudovirgatum Levyns

An erect, glabrous shrub, about 30 cm in height, much branched from the base. Stems striate with channels running down from the leaf bases. Upper leaves small, subulate, acute, usually adpressed, withering at the tips; basal leaves may be larger and linear. Flowers in few-flowered, terminal cymes. Bract reaching to about the top of the ovary, round backed and thickened in the upper half, upper surface flat. Bracteoles similar to the bracts but more slender and a little shorter. Flower almost sessile, about 2 mm in length. Perianth with spreading segments and a short tube; perianth segments with the edges minutely papillose, thickened and hump-backed at the apex. Stamens inserted at the top of the perianth tube, exserted; back of the anther attached to the perianth by a tuft of hairs; filaments in the open flower one and a half to twice the length of the anthers. Style well developed, equalling or projecting very slightly beyond the stamens. Fruit about 7 mm in length, crowned by the persistent, erect perianth, narrowed at the base which is cream in colour and deeply 5-lobed; above this lobed basal portion the fruit is smooth when fresh but with the veins becoming visible when dry.