Plant: perennial herb; Dioecious, glabrous; STEMS 15-40 cm long from woody bases Leaves: 4 per node, 9-24 mm long, mostly linear, occasionally lanceolate; apices usually pungent and often reflexed Flowers: few, the branchlets and pedicels long and divaricate; corolla rotate, glabrous, whitish Fruit: FRUITS 5-7 mm wide, on pedicels curved sharply downward, the long straight hairs yellowish or brown, not thickly set Misc: Shaded areas among rocks; crevices of sandstone ledges and cliffs; with juniper and pinyon pine:; 1450-2550 m (4800-8400 ft); Jun-Aug REFERENCES: Dempster, Lauramay T. 1995. Rubiaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Sci. 29(l): 29.