Wahlenbergia juncea (H.Buek) Lammers

A tall slender virgate herb. Stems many from a woody base, erect, up to 50 cm high. Leaves alternate, close below, distant above, decreasing in size from the base upwards: lower leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblong, up to 2 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, the upper much smaller. Leaves entire, with thickened revolute edges, slightly hispid below. Flowers in a lax raceme-like inflorescence, sessile or very shortly pedicellate, either solitary or in cymose groups in the axils of small bracts. Calyx lobes 2-3 mm long, acute, ciliate, distinctly connate at the base, bending out abruptly at the top of the ovary. Corolla usually white, 0.8-1 cm long, the tube as long as the calyx lobes. Bases of the filaments oblong, obtusely 3-lobed at the top, shortly but densely ciliate. Ovary inferior, 2-chambered, conical, 1.5-2 mm long, with slender longitudinal ribs. Fruit 0.4-1 cm long, cylindrical-conical, thin-walled, glabrous: valves short about half as long as the calyx lobes.