Brunia microphylla Thunb.

Usually 60-90 cm high, with villous branchlets. Leaves mostly 1.5-1.75 mm long, sessile, closely appressed, at first partly imbricate, rotund, ovate or rarely elliptic, obtuse, apiculate, ciliate, convex and at first sparsely pubescent on the dorsal surface, concave on the ventral surface, villous at the base. Flower-heads mostly 3-4 mm wide, convex above, subtended by several leaves. Bracts and bracteoles linear, villous on the dorsal surface. Calyx-tube villous, adhering to the ovary except the upper part: calyx-lobes deltoid, apiculate, villous on the dorsal surface. Petals about 1 mm long, elliptic, villous on the upper half of the dorsal surface, with 2 converging keels on the lower half. Stamens half as long as the petals: anthers rotund. Ovary slightly more than half inferior, villous, with 2 uniovulate chambers: styles about 0-5 mm long. Fruit 1-seeded; seed elliptic, smooth.