Anaxeton lundgrenii B.Nord.

Sparingly branched suffrutex 150-250 mm high; branches 2-3 mm thick, greyish-woolly, glabrescent with age, closely leafy except apical portions of flowering branches (corymbophores). Leaves ± patent, sessile, entire, oblanceolate, 15-30 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, obtuse, apiculate, impressedly midveined above, distinctly midribbed below, loosely floccose-woolly (when young) to glabrescent or glabrous above, densely greyish-white woolly below. Corymbophore 25-70 mm long, with 0-4 scattered, linear, ± woolly leaves. Peduncles 5-15 mm long, densely woolly. Compound corymb 25-40 mm wide, made up of 5-8 clusters each 10-15 mm wide. Capitula 3-flowered. Involucral bracts 9-13 (often 10). Outer bracts elliptic-oblong-narrowly oblong-obovate, 2.5-3.5 mm long, 0.6-1.2 mm wide, obtuse or (outermost) subacute, membranaceous, pellucid, whitish or apically light brownish, distinctly silky-pilose with long white straight hairs except the very apex. Middle bracts stipitate, 3.5-4 mm long, with somewhat thickened yellowish base; claw oblanceolate-narrowly oblong, 2.0-2.5 mm long, 0.2-0.5 mm wide basally, widening to 0.7-1 mm wide apically, light greenish-yellow, white-woolly or somewhat silky-woolly; lamina broadly elliptic-oblong to rounded-oblong, 1.0-1.5 mm long and wide, white, opaque, truncate or somewhat premorse. Inner bracts stipitate, 2.5-4.0 mm long; claw 2-3 mm long, c. 0.2 mm wide basally, widening to 0.6-0.8 mm wide apically, greenish-yellowish, white-woolly especially along the margins; lamina roundish, 0.8-1.5 mm long and wide, white, opaque, apically obtuse-rounded or minutely lobed. Female floret 1. Corolla tubular, 2.0-2.3 mm long, minutely 4-5-lobed, sparsely glandular. Style branches 0.8-1 mm long, obtuse. Pappus bristles 10-12, 0.6-1.0 mm long, barbellate, white, basally connate. Achene narrowly elliptic-oblong, 1.7-2.0 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, brown, copiously white-woolly. Male florets 2. Corolla 2.7-3 mm long, campanulate above, 5-lobed, sparsely glandular; lobes deltoid. Anthers 1.0-1.2 mm incl. tails and apical appendage; appendage triangular, acute. Style undivided, sterile, apically subclavate, truncate, papillate. Pappus bristles c. 15, 1.5-2.0 mm long, barbellate, white, basally connate. Ovary narrowly oblong, 0.7-0.8 mm long, yellowish, glabrous.