Aspilia pluriseta Schweinf. ex Engl.

Perennial herb or subshrub, with multiple branches from woody rootstock, usually trailing with distal part erect and to 50 cm high, or with many short erect stems up to 50 cm high, sometimes (?in shade?) erect and to 1.5 m high; stem scabrid. Leaves (sub-)sessile, ovate to narrowly ovate, 2-5(-8) cm long, 0.8-2(-3.5) cm wide, base rounded, subcordate or broadly cuneate, margins serrate, apex obtuse or acute, scabrid on both surfaces; 3-veined from base; petiole 0-3(-5) mm long. Capitula terminal and solitary or up to 3 together, almost sessile among the upper leaves or on stalks 0.5-6 cm long; involucre ovoid, 3-seriate, 7-12(-16) mm long; phyllaries green, scabrid-pilose, the outer often long and reflexed; paleae 7-11 mm long with caudate-acuminate apex, especially in fruit. Ray florets yellow or orange-yellow, 9-16, without styles, the ray 10-15 mm long, tube 2.3-3.2 mm long, glabrous or pilose; disc florets yellow or brownish, 4.7-9 mm long, glabrous or puberulous; anther appendages yellow. Achenes obovoid, 2.5-4.5 mm long, pubescent; pappus a lacerate cupule to 0.7 mm high and sometimes with 1-2(-5) setae to 2.5 mm long.

It is a tropical plant. It can grow in arid places. It grows in open woodland and grassland. In Zimbabwe it grows between 1,360-1,560 m above sea level.

The fruit are eaten as a dessert fruit.