Anderbergia vlokii (Hilliard) B.Nord.

Loosely branched shrublet 0.2-0.4 m high, greyish-white-tomentose throughout, though old stems glabrescent. Leaves evenly distributed or closely set on scattered brachyblasts, oblong, 4-6 mm long, 0.7-1.5 mm wide, upper side loosely cobwebby-tomentose, lower side more densely so, midrib indistinct, margins much revolute, apex obtuse to rounded and minutely apiculate but mostly without a distinct apiculus. Capitula c. 10-40 in dense, rounded corymbs 1-2 cm in diam. Capitulum 3-4 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide. Outer involucral bracts 9-11, filiform-linear to oblanceolate, 2-3 mm long, 0.1-0.5 mm wide, brown or dark brown, whitish-cobwebby-tomentose with obtuse to rounded membranous, glabrous tip. Inner involucral bracts 6-7, unguiculate, 3.5-4 mm long; claw narrowly oblong, greenish with a purplish tinge, basally glabrous but distally cobwebby-tomentose; petaloid portion suborbicular to square, c. 1 mm long and wide. Female florets (1-)2. Corolla tubular, 2-2.2 mm long, apically shortly 5-lobed, glandular; style branches c. 0.5 mm long, little exserted. Cypsela narrowly ellipsoid-oblong, shiny brownish, ribbed, subglabrous with only few and short papillae mainly apically. Ovary wall crystals homomorphic, prismatic, sharply hexagonal. Pappus bristles basally flattened and widened and distinctly connate, barbellate throughout with acute slender teeth also apically. Functionally male florets usually 4; corolla yellow, 2.2-2.7 mm long, with a campanulate 5-lobed limb, glandular on the limb with shortly stalked or subsessile glands. Anthers with a triangular-ovate obtuse apical appendage. Style simple, apically subtruncate, emarginate or slightly bifid. Ovary aborted, glabrous, 2-veined. Pappus bristles basally somewhat flattened and distinctly connate, barbellate throughout with mostly acute teeth, but apical teeth obtuse and closely set.