erect, much-branched, 2–3 ft. high; branches pubescent, sometimes floccose with minute plumose hairs; leaves spreading, linear to narrow-lanceolate, obtuse, deeply sulcate, with a raised nerve on the flat upper surface, glabrous and smooth or roughly hispid with tubercle-based hairs, ciliate or naked, 1 1/2–3 (mostly 2–2 1/2) lin. long; flowers at the ends of short branchlets; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; bract one only, approximate or subremote, sometimes subamplexicaul, sepal-like but smaller, pallid; sepals adpressed, narrow-ovate, acute, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, glabrous, mostly smooth and shining, whitish, from 3/4– 7/8 the length of the corolla; corolla ovoid-urceolate to globose-urceolate, whitish, about 1 lin. long; segments rounded or deltoid, spreading, about 1/2 the length of the tube; filaments rather broad, shorter than the anther; anthers lateral, dorsifixed a little above the base, obliquely ovate, subacute, smooth, under 1/3 lin. long; pore small, less than 1/3 the length of the cell; style shortly exserted; stigma peltate; ovary hispidulous. null
