Wahlenbergia effusa (Adamson) Lammers

Stems many from the root, woody, with divaricate branches. Leaves alternate, fasciculate, reflexed or recurved, linear, 8-11 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, concave above, toothed all along the edges. Flowering branches numerous, much branched, very slender, with small distant leaf-like bracts. Flowers small, distant, on pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm long. Calyx lobes 1.5 mm long, with an outturned mucro at the tip. Corolla white, 4 mm long, the tube very short. Style distinctly thickened at the top. Ovary inferior, glabrous, hemispherical. Fruit 1-5 mm long: valves about as long as the spreading calyx lobes.