Wahlenbergia polyantha Lammers

Stems woody at the base, sprawling, with spreading or ascending branches, the younger shortly pubescent. Leaves alternate, fasciculate, the lower crowded and reflexed, the upper distant and spreading, linear 4-8 mm long, about 1 mm wide, concave above, the edges thickened and denticulate. Inflorescence on a peduncle 1.5-3 cm long, paniculate, the branches ascending or spreading, the flowers in groups. Pedicels glabrous or with a few reflexed hairs, 3-6 mm long. Calyx lobes 1 mm long, cucullate, glabrous. Corolla blue, 3-4 mm long, the tube very short. Bases of the filaments almost orbicular, 1 mm diameter, ciliate on the upper edge. Style much thickened in the upper half: stigma 3-fid, with lobes about 1 mm long. Fruit 2 mm diameter, 3 mm long, the lower part about 1 mm, distinctly ribbed: valves sub-obtuse, distinctly longer than the calyx lobes.