Arrowsmithia hamata (Hilliard & B.L.Burtt) N.G.Bergh

Straggly shrub up to c. 1 m tall, young stems densely leafy. Leaves patent, linear, c. 10-13 x 1.25 mm, apex very acute, hooked, margins revolute, upper surface green, glossy, with a few white woolly hairs and stout gland-tipped hairs particularly towards the tips and margins in the upper half, lower surface white-woolly, the midrib obscured. Heads sessile, solitary at the branch tips. Involucre turbinate, c. 12 x 10 mm, bracts straw-coloured, brownish towards the tips, thinly woolly. Flowers yellow, rays female, disc hermaphrodite. Corolla of disc flowers cylindric below, hairy, narrowly campanulate above, glabrous; anther appendages oblong, obtuse, less than 0.5 mm long, about half as wide at the base, tails smooth or slightly fimbriate, cohering lightly in pairs. Achenes not seen, ovary 10-ribbed, glabrous. Pappus bristles c. 22, subequal, longest about equalling cylindric part of corolla tube, caducous.