Anaxeton laeve (Harv.) Lundgren

Suffrutex, normally little-branched, flowering branches woolly, ± closely leafy below and less leafy above, older parts glabrous and nude and marked with leaf-scars. Leaves suberect-patent, linear-narrowly elliptic, 1-3(-6) cm long and (1-)1.5-2(-3) mm wide, mucronate or shortly acuminate, pungent, smooth and glabrous on upper side, impressedly mid-veined above. Corymbophore when fully-developed (5-)10-20(-25) cm long and 1.5-2.5 mm in diameter, densely woolly. Corymb 1.5-3(-7) cm wide. Peduncles 20 mm long, densely woolly. Capitula 12-flowered. Involucral bracts 18-25. Outer bracts narrowly elliptic-elliptic (-narrowly ovate), 3-4 mm long and 1-1.5 mm wide, light brown with deeper brown base and apex, often somewhat purplish in the middle, acute, outside and margins except apex white-sericeous. Middle bracts stipitate; claw narrowly elliptic-narrowly obovate, 2-3 mm long and c. 1 mm wide, light brown-light green, outside and margins sericeous-woolly; lamina circular or broadly elliptic-depressed obovate, 1.5-1.8 mm long and 1.5-2 mm wide, white, opaque, obtuse-truncate or somewhat emarginate. Inner bracts stipitate; claw narrowly elliptic-narrowly obovate, (1.5-)2.5-3 mm long and 0.5-1 mm wide, light brown-light green, outside and (especially) margins densely woolly; lamina circular-transversely broadly elliptic-depressed obovate, 1.5-2 mm long and 1-2 mm wide, white, opaque, obtuse-truncate or somewhat emarginate. Female floret(s) 1(-2). Corolla 2.2-2.5 mm long. Pappus bristles c. 10, normally as long as the corolla tube, otherwise as in male florets. Achene (narrowly) elliptic, (1.5-)1.8-2.1 mm long and 0.5-0.8 mm wide, deep brown, copiously white-woolly. Male florets 5-11. Corolla 2.5-3 mm long, often somewhat darker below the middle. Pappus bristles c. 15, normally as long as the corolla tube, whitish, flexuous, barbellate, somewhat broader towards the base, basally fused into an annulus.