Plant: perennial herb; slender, stems erect, several to many, 15-40 cm high Leaves: glabrous or puberulent, opposite, but often somewhat fascicled, 19-38 mm long, lanceolate, narrowly ovate, with acute or obtuse at apices; stipules pale or hyaline, 0.5-2 mm long, lanceolate, bifid or erose INFLORESCENCE: few-flowered, becoming widely divaricate; pedicels filiform, 6-25 mm long, forming a bulbous swelling below the flowers Flowers: calyx lobes inconspicuous, claw-shaped, curved inward toward the corolla, generally shorter than ovary hairs; corolla 4-8 mm long, pink or white, pubescent outside, dotted with tack-shaped hairs inside, the tube slender, the lobes lanceolate, spreading; stamens, style and bifid stigma included within corolla lobes Fruit: obovoid, 3 mm long, densely covered with uncinate hairs, bifid when mature Misc: Moist shaded places in coniferous forests and adjacent meadows; 1400-8000 m (4600-8600 ft); Jun-Sep REFERENCES: Terrell, Edward E. 1995 Rubiaceae. Houstonia. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 29(l): 36.