Thesium utile A.W.Hill

Stems few from the apex of an erect slender woody rhizome, strongly ribbed and sulcate, glabrous; branches ascending; leaves linear-acicular, acute or subacute, about 3/4 in. long, 1/3-1/2 lin. broad, with a fairly distinct keeled midrib below, glabrous; flowers solitary or three together in the bract axils at the apex of a short peduncle; bracts shorter than the flowers, linear, subacute, glabrous, entire; bracteoles about half the length of the bracts but very similar to them; perianth about 1 1/2 lin. long; segments elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse, 3/4-1 lin. long, hooded and bearded at the apex, with papillose margins; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, 1/4 lin. long; style 1/3-3/4 lin. long, reaching nearly to the top of the anthers; fruits ellipsoid-ovoid, 3 lin. long, strongly 10-11-ribbed, slightly reticulate between the ribs.