Berzelia dregeana Colozza

About 1 m high, densely branched, with arachnoid-pilose branchlets. Leaves mostly 5-8 mm long, erect-spreading, rarely spreading or recurved, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, ustulate-apiculate, stoutly keeled on the dorsal surface, slightly convex on the ventral surface, flat or somewhat furrowed at the base, slightly keeled towards the apex, at first arachnoid-pilose, usually soon becoming glabrous. Stipules subulate, minute, not always present. Flowering heads about 4 mm wide, globose, terminating very short leafless branchlets, arranged in raceme-like formation. Bract and bracteoles spathulate, with caducous hairs on the dorsal surface, reaching the middle of the petals. Calyx-tube broadly oblong, sparsely clothed with caducous unicellular hairs: calyx-lobes lanceolate, with caducous hairs on the dorsal surface, scarcely reaching the middle of the petals. Petals about 1.5 mm long, spathulate, thickened below the middle, not apparently keeled, cream-coloured, with a few hairs below the middle on both surfaces. Stamens shortly exserted: anthers 0.5 mm long, broadly elliptic: thecae free 2/3 of their length. Ovary 1/2 inferior, conical and villous in the upper part. Fruit unknown.