Thesium translucens A.W.Hill

Root erect, slender, greyish-white; stems up to 18 in. high, branched from near the base; branches erect or ascending, angular, glabrous; leaves straight or incurved, ascending, linear-acicular, acute, 4-6 lin. long, about 1/3 lin. thick, flat and with a prominent midrib on the upper surface, keeled below, glabrous; flowers arranged in small dense bracteate terminal heads 3-6 lin. in diam.; bracts longer than the flowers, gradually differentiated from the upper leaves, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, reddish, keeled, with membranous jagged margins about the middle, glabrous; bracteoles somewhat shorter and narrower than the bracts; perianth 2-2 1/2 lin. long; tube very short; segments linear-lanceolate, acute, with horny terete translucent apices, with a very short beard at the base of the hood and finely papillose margins; anthers included in the perianth-tube, 1/4 lin. long; stigma subsessile; fruits not seen.