Greene's Starviolet

Oldenlandia greenei A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 77. 1883
Slender erect annual, 5-30 cm. high, simple or sparsely branched, glabrous throughout, the internodes few, equaling or shorter than the leaves; stipules minute, triangular, cuspidate; leaves sessile or the lower short-petiolate, the blades linear or spatulate-linear, or those of the lowest leaves elliptic, 6-20 mm. long, 1-2.5 mm. wide, rounded at the apex, gradually attenuate to the base; flowers partly sessile or short-pedicellate in the forks of the branches, partly in lax few-flowered pedunculate axillary cymes; hypanthium less than 1 mm. long, the calyxlobes as long or slightly longer, thick, narrowly oblong or lance-oblong, obtuse or acute, distant in fruit; corolla 3 mm. long (white?), the tube slender, longer than the calyx-lobes, the lobes shorter than the tube, narrowly oblong; capsule hemispheric or subglobose, 2 mm. long and broad, shallowly sulcate, smooth; seeds minute, angulate.
Type locality: Pinos Altos Mountains. New Mexico. Distribution": Southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona.