Selago cryptadenia Hilliard

Dwarf woody shrublet c. 150-500 mm tall, ± virgately well branched, old stems bare, up to c. 6 mm in diam., old bare inflorescence axes persistent, subspinescent, young branches minutely puberulous, hairs up to c. 0.1 mm long, ± patent, invisible glands also present, sometimes oozing and varnishing stem, closely leafy. Leaves opposite becoming alternate upwards, not fascicled, largest 3-7 x 0.5-0.8 mm, spreading to recurved in upper half, linear or very narrowly elliptic, apex obtuse, base scarcely narrowed, decurrent, margins entire, plane, texture thick, midrib raised on lower surface, glandular-punctate sometimes oozing, otherwise glabrous except on decurrent part. Inflorescence a congested many-flowered spike c. 15-50 x 8-10 mm, solitary at the tips of innumerable leafy branchlets. Bract adnate to base of calyx tube and minute pedicel, lowermost 3-4.2 x 0.6-0.9 mm, linear-lanceolate, subacute, glandular-punctate, sometimes oozing, hairs up to 0.2-0.3 mm long on lower margins, back either glabrous or a few minute hairs at base. Pedicel 0-0.2 mm long. Calyx 1.7-2 mm long, campanulate, 5-lobed roughly halfway to base, two anticous lobes slightly broader than other three, hairs up to 0.2-0.3 mm long on margins, to 0.15-0.2 mm long outside together with minute globular glands, inside minutely glandular, sometimes oozing and difficult to see. Corolla tube 3.7-5.1 mm long, funnel-shaped, limb 3.6-4.2 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes 1.5-1.8 x 0.7-1 mm, anticous lobe 1.8-2 x 0.9-1.2 mm, all lobes oblong-elliptic, white fading to cream then yellowish. Stamens: posticous filaments 1.4-2 mm long, anticous filaments 1.5-2 mm, all anthers well exerted. Stigma and style c. 4-5 mm long, glabrous. Ovary c. 0.6 x 0.4 mm, glabrous. Cocci 1.2-1.5 x 0.8 mm, red-brown, smooth, inner face plane, the pair of cocci held within the persistent calyx.