Wahlenbergia pyrophila Lammers

Stems many, procumbent or ascending, wiry, up to 40 cm long, branched, woody at the base only, the younger reddish. Leaves mostly opposite, wiry, linear, 0.5-1.3 cm long, spreading or falcate, concave above, minutely toothed, the lower sometimes fasciculate. Flowers axillary, solitary, on roughly hairy pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm long. Calyx lobes 2 mm long. Corolla white, purple or brown-purple outside, glabrous, 4-6 mm long, the tube 1-1.5 mm long. Bases of the filaments obtusely lozenge-shaped, rather densely ciliate. Style blue or pimple, gradually thickened above. Ovary hemispherical, covered with white hairs except for prominent green ridges. Valves shorter than the calyx lobes.