Anderbergia fallax B.Nord.

Erect to diffuse shrublet 0.1-0.6 m high, repeatedly branching, greyish-tomentose with older branches glabrescent. Leaves evenly distributed along flowering branches and some crowded on brachyblasts, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 5-10 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, cobwebby-tomentose on both sides, more densely so on lower side, margins revolute, apex acutely apiculate with a distinct firm apiculus. Synflorescence compact, rounded, 1-2 cm wide. Involucre cup-shaped to campanulate, 3-3.5 mm long, 2-3 mm wide. Outer involucral bracts 9-11, linear to narrowly oblong or oblanceolate or spatulate, 1.5-2.5 mm long, 0.2-0.7 mm wide, greyish or light brownish cobwebby-tomentose with membranous brown glabrous obtuse to truncate tips. Inner petaloid involucral bracts c. 7, unguiculate, 2.5-3 mm long; claw cobwebby-tomentose from the base; petaloid portion rounded-oblong to broadly obovate, c. 1.2 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide. Female floret (0-)1; corolla 2-2.5 mm long, apically distinctly glandular with mostly stalked glands. Cypsela (immature) elliptic-oblong, sparsely and shortly hirsute with papilliform obtuse hairs and a few longer and thinner setae. Ovary wall crystals mostly homomorphic, prismatic, bluntly octagonal. Pappus bristles c. 10-15, slender, 1.5-2 mm long, basally barely connate, barbellate throughout with acute teeth. Functionally male florets 4; corolla 2-2.5 mm long, yellow, with campanulate 5-lobed limb, distinctly glandular with stalked glands. Anthers c. 1 mm long excl. tails, appendage triangular-ovate. Style simple, truncate. Ovary aborted, glabrous, 2-veined. Pappus bristles c. 10-15, 1.5-2 mm long, slender, basally barely connate, barbellate throughout with acute teeth.