Thesium repandum A.W.Hill

A spreading branched shrublet, about 16 in. high; root erect, slender, with very long light straw-coloured horizontally spreading lateral rootlets; stems spreading and ascending, 3 or 4 from the apex of the root, prominently ridged, glabrous; leaves sparse, recurved, acicular, acute, 3-5 lin. long, about 1/4 lin. thick, glabrous; flowers 3-4 in small clusters at the ends of the shoots, sessile; bracts inconspicuous, scarcely half the length of the flowers, ovate or lanceolate, acutely acuminate, with more or less membranous margins, glabrous; bracteoles about 3/4 the length of the bracts but otherwise very similar to them; perianth 3/4-1 lin. long; segments ovate, subacute, flat, not hooded, 1/3 lin. long, margin and apex with a beard of long hairs; anthers included in the perianth-tube, slightly over 1/4 lin. long; stigma subsessile or supported on a very short style; fruits oblong-globose, contracted and stipitate at the base, 1 1/2 lin. long, fairly prominently ribbed, reticulate between the ribs, reddish-brown when dry.