Wahlenbergia rubens (H.Buek) Lammers

Stems-woody, ascending, reddish brown, covered with short spreading hairs, often much branched. Leaves fasciculate, spreading, ericoid rolled, though slightly open-backed, 3-6 mm long, green, glabrous, mucronate at the tip, usually with 1-2 pairs of sharp teeth near the base. Inflorescence with few or many erecto-patent branches, sometimes corymbose, sometimes almost spike-like. Flowers in groups of 2-3. Bracts like the leaves but less rolled and with longer teeth. Calyx glabrous or nearly so, the lobes re volute-rolled, 2-3 mm long, usually with slender teeth near the base. Corolla white, purple or brownish outside, 3.5-7 mm long, the tube less than] mm the lobes slightly widened to the tip, hairy outside but often very thinly so. Bases of the filaments oblong or oblong-spathulate, thinly ciliate. Ovary wider than long, hemispherical below. Fruit wider than long, the valves much shorter than the calyx lobes.