Thesium sertulariastrum A.W.Hill

Stems much-branched, subterete; branches rather crowded and ascending, very minutely puberulous; leaves scattered, a few towards the base of the plant acicular, terete, about 1/2 in. long, subobtuse, glabrous, the remainder subulate-lanceolate, with blackened very acute tips, about 1 lin. long, glabrous; flowers up to 3 at the apex of each shoot, sessile within the bracts; bracts and bracteoles forming an involucre, subequal, linear-or ovate-lanceolate, very acutely acuminate, shorter than the flowers, with black tips and fringed submembranous margins, glabrous; perianth globose at the base, 1 lin. long; segments linear-lanceolate, acute, nearly 2/3 lin. long, with a long hooded apex and dense apical beard; anthers included in the perianth-tube, 1/4 lin. long; stigma subsessile; fruits ellipsoid, 3/4 lin. long, prominently 10-ribbed, prominently reticulate between the ribs.