Anaxeton hirsutum Less.

Suffrutex, normally little-branched. Branches ± closely leafy to the corymb sparsely leafy above, pilose-woolly when young, glabrous and nude and marked with leaf-scars with age. Leaves suberect-erecto-patent, narrowly oblong-narrowly elliptic, 0.5-1.5 cm long and (1-)1.5-2 mm wide, mucronate, bluntly-acutely scabrid and sparsely pilose with spreading white hairs on upper side. Corymbophore 0 or up to 4 cm long and 1-1.5 mm in diameter, densely pilose-woolly with white-brownish hairs. Corymb (0.8-)1-2 cm wide. Peduncles c. 5 mm long and densely pilose-woolly. Capitula few, 9-12-flowered. Involucral bracts (23-)25-35(-45). Outer bracts linear-narrowly oblong-narrowly elliptic, (3.5-)4.5-5.5 mm long and 0.5-0.8(-1) mm wide, brown with a darker brown apex, much acuminate, outside and margins except the tip very densely sericeous with brownish hairs. Middle bracts few, narrowly elliptic-narrowly obovate, (5-)5.5-6 mm long and (0.5-)1 mm wide, apical part whitish and opaque, remaining part light brown, acute, outside and margins except apical part sericeous-woolly with brownish hairs. Inner bracts stipitate; claw narrowly elliptic-narrowly obovate, (3.5-)4-4.
 long and c. 1 mm wide, light brown, outside and margins sericeous-woolly with brownish hairs; lamina elliptic-broadly elliptic, (2-)2.5-3 mm long and 1.4-1.7 mm wide, white, opaque, obtuse. Female floret 1. Corolla (2-)2.2-2.6 mm long. Pappus bristles 8-10, 1.2-1.7 mm long, otherwise as in male florets. Achene narrowly oblong-narrowly elliptic, (1.3-)1.5-2(-2.2) mm long and 0.5-1.1 mm wide, dark brown, densely sericeous-tomentose with yellowish hairs. Male florets 8-11. Corolla (2.5-)2.8-3.2 mm long. Pappus bristles 10-15, 2-2.5 mm long, whitish, flexuous, sparsely barbellate with small lateral teeth, free at the base.