Wahlenbergia brachyphylla (Adamson) Lammers

Woody, harsh from hispid hairs. Stems many, erect or ascending, up to 45 cm high, with forking branches. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, fasciculate, short, 1-3 mm long, spreading or partly reflexed, rigid and almost prickly, thick, concave above, often toothed near the base. Flowers few, in the uppermost axils, on pedicels about 2 mm long. Calyx lobes often reddish, hispid, acute, 1 mm long. Corolla white, 4-5 mm long, the lobes slightly hispid, about as long as the tube. Bases of the filaments oblong, densely ciliate. Style very slightly thickened at the top: stigma 3-fid. Ovary flattened, almost superior, 2-3 mm diam., slightly bulged below the calyx lobes. Valves of the fruit as long as or very slightly longer than the calyx lobes.