Wahlenbergia microphylla (Adamson) Lammers

A low much-branched woody shrublet up to 25 cm high. Stems, pedicels and ovaries covered with very short hairs. Leaves crowded, small, 1-2 mm long and about as wide, squarrose-recurved, not reflexed, rigid, thick, concave above. Flowers solitary on short branches in a terminal umbellate group. Pedicels rigid, 3-5 mm long. Calyx lobes thick, triangular, acute, 1 mm long, usually spreading. Corolla 5-6 mm long, white, blue or purplish outside, the tube very short, the lobes spreading, glabrous. Bases of the filaments cruciform, shortly ciliate. Ovary 3-chambered, less than half inferior. Fruit 1-1.5 mm long, 1.5-2 mm diameter, narrowed to the base: valves twice as long as the calyx lobes.