Compilation
Wellstedia socotrana

Low shrublet, forming ± flat rosettes on the ground when moist, coiling up when dry, with slender stems. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, 6–25 x 2–8 mm, narrowing below into a petiole-like base, covered with appressed hairs up to 1.5 mm long. Flowers whitish or pale violet, arranged in axillary dense sessile cymes along the upper sides of the branches. Calyx-lobes c. 1.5 mm long. Corolla-tube 1–1.5 mm long, with 4 conspicuous thickenings in the mouth between the lobes, glabrous outside; lobes 1–1.5 mm long, entire, pubescent outside. Style 1–1.5 mm long, pubescent in all its length; stigma lobes c. 0.25 mm long. Capsule 1-seeded, c. 3.6 x 5 mm; dissepiment 2.5–3 x 1–1.4 mm, with a 0.2–0.4 mm long placenta; seed 2–2.5 mm long.