Thesium susannae A.W.Hill

Stems erect, woody, with reddish angles, glabrous; branches ascending or suberect, leafy; leaves linear-acicular, more or less trigonous, acute, 1/2-3/4 in. long, about 1/3 lin. thick, glabrous; flowers in shortly pedunculate or subsessile 3-5-flowered cymules arranged in terminal leafy racemes; peduncles 1-2 lin. long; bracts adnate to the apex of the peduncle, much overtopping the flowers, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute or subacute, sometimes with subtranslucent reddish margins, convex below, concave above, glabrous, entire; bracteoles about half as long as the free portion of the bracts, otherwise very similar to the latter; perianth 1-1 1/4 lin. long, with distinct external glands and an internal lobed disc; segments broadly triangular-ovate, subacute, 1/2 lin. long, hooded, fleshy, glabrous, margins scarcely papillose; anthers included, reaching to the base of the perianth-segments, 1/8 lin. long; stigma subsessile; fruits ellipsoid-globose, 2 1/2 lin. long, distinctly 10-ribbed, rather fleshy, scarcely reticulate between the ribs.