Grubovia dasyphylla (Fisch. & C. A. Mey.) Freitag & G. Kadereit

Annuals up to 30 cm with tumble-weed habit. Stems red or green, pilose at younger stage and moderately glabrescent at fruiting (white or greyish hairs often turning fulvous after drying). Leaves 1.0–4.0 × 0.1–0.3 cm, with appressed or spreading white hairs up to 6–7 mm long. Perianth segments 5, pilose (Fig. 44B), sometimes glabrescent at fruiting stage with spiny (subulate or acicular), star-like projections up to 3.0 mm long that can be glabrous or with simple white hairs. Stamens 5. Fruit ovoid.

See Fig. 43.