Thesium rariflorum Sond.

Stems ascending or straggling, slender, slightly angular, glabrous; leaves few, acicular, subacute, 1/2-1 in. long, about 1/3 lin. thick, fleshy, glabrous; flowers solitary or subsolitary at the ends of short lateral cymules; bracts adnate to the peduncle, as long as or sometimes considerably longer than the flowers, linear-lanceolate, acute, 1 1/2-3 lin. long, with narrowly membranous margins, glabrous; bracteoles a little shorter than the flowers but otherwise very similar to the bracts; perianth about 1 lin. long; segments 1/2-2/3 lin. long, ovate, subacute, flat, with a dense apical beard; anthers inserted at the base of or low down in the tube, 1/8 lin. long; style 1/6 lin. long, reaching to the top of the anthers, or almost wanting; fruits ellipsoid-globose, shortly contracted at the base, prominently 10 ribbed, slightly reticulate between the ribs, capped by the persistent closed perianth.