Wahlenbergia asparagoides (Adamson) Lammers

Sprawling. Stems green, many from a woody root, up to 1 m. long, much branched, the ultimate branchlets divaricate and finally more or less spinous. Leaves alternate, not fasciculate, the lower 2-4, rarely 5-7 mm long, rigid, spreading or falcate-recurved, concave above, the edges thickened and obtusely toothed, the upper much smaller. Lower leaves as long as or longer than the internodes, the upper distant, often 1-1.5 cm apart. Flowers at the tips of the branchlets: pedicels 2-3 mm long. Calyx lobes 1-1.5 mm long, acute or mucronate. Corolla white, glabrous, 5-7 mm long, the tube 2.5-3 mm long, almost as long as the lobes. Bases of the filaments elliptic-oblong, not bulged at the sides, acute, densely ciliate. Ovary inferior, hemispherical or slightly narrowed at the base. Valves slightly shorter than the reflexed calyx lobes.