Wahlenbergia desmantha Lammers

Stems woody, up to 80 cm high, solitary, erect, branched from the base or in the upper parts, the younger brown, hispidulous or almost glabrous. Leaves alternate, fasciculate, reflexed, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-5 mm long, 1.3-2.5 mm wide, thick, concave above, acute, glabrous or with a few hairs on the underside, entire or minutely toothed at the base. Leaves crowded or distant in the upper parts. Flowers in terminal heads with 2 to many flowers. Bracts flat, rather thin, acute, toothed, 0.5-1.5 cm long, hairy on the midrib, much longer than the pedicels, usually longer than the flowers. Pedicels hispid, 1-3 mm long. Calyx lobes 3-6 mm long, narrow, acuminate, toothed, usually revolute at the edges. Corolla 6-10 mm long, white but blue or purple outside, the tube very short, the lobes narrow, spreading, hairy on the mid line outside. Bases of the filaments oblong, acute, with lateral bulges, finely ciliate. Style hairy: stigma 3-fid. Ovary inferior, 2-4 mm long, pointed at the base. Fruit obconical, the valves shorter than the calyx lobes.