Thesium urceolatum A.W.Hill

Stems woody, glabrous; branches spreading, angular, glaucous; leaves stout, semicircular in section, flat or slightly concave above, linear, subacutely mucronate, 1/2-3/4 in. long, about 1/2 lin. broad, fleshy, somewhat glaucous, glabrous; flowers rather large and at first arranged in crowded spikes, at length lax, usually 3 together; bracts shorter than the flowers, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acutely mucronate, thick and fleshy, boat-shaped; bracteoles about two-thirds the length of the bracts but otherwise similar; perianth 1 1/2 lin. long; segments 2/3-3/4 lin. long, ovate, subacute, with a dense apical tuft of hairs; anthers included in the perianth-tube, about 1/4 lin. long, with a ring of hairs in the tube at the level of their insertion; style stout, 1/8-1/4 lin. long, reaching to the base of the anthers; fruits ellipsoid, 2 1/2 lin. long including the persistent perianth, prominently 10-ribbed, glaucous grey when mature, transversely wrinkled between the nerves.