STATICE tetragonaDrège [family PLUMBAGINACEAE], Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 94, not of Thunb.
Information
rootstock woody; leaves linear-spathulate, 1 1/2 in. long, up to 2 lin. wide, obtuse, mucronate; scape 4–10 in. high, flexuous, rough, as are also the panicle-branches and bracts; panicle much-branched, branches secund; spikelets 2-flowered; bracts short, sheathing, acute; outer bracteoles 2, subequal, inner elliptic, much longer than the outer; calyx 2 lin. long, 5-ribbed; tube hairy outside, reddish; limb scarcely as long as the tube, obtusely and shortly 5-lobed, white. null
Distribution
WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Haazenkraals River, 2000–2500 ft., Drège!