Brunia virgata Brongn.

Usually 50-90 cm high, with slender tomentose branchlets. I.eaves mostly 4-6 mm long, sessile, appressed, shortly imbricate on the branchlets, lanceolate, apiculate, rounded-convex on the dorsal surface, concave and densely tomentose on the ventral surface. Flower-heads 3-5 mm long, rotund, conical or spherical, terminal and solitary or several together. Bract leaf-life, ovate, much shorter than the flower. Bracteoles 2, oblanceolate-linear, obtuse, deeply concave on the ventral surface, 1-1.25 mm long. Calyx-tube dorsally compressed, glabrous, with a shallow cup-shaped free upper part: calyx-lobes about 1 mm long, unequal in size, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous. Petals about 1-25 mm long, obovate, elliptic or oblong, obtuse, glabrous, whitish, with a pair of short converging keels at the base. Stamens slightly shorter than the petals: filaments recurved above the middle: anthers ovate. Ovary inferior, tomentose on the top, with 2 uniovulate chambers: styles ± connate in the lower half, reaching to about the middle of the petals. Fruit unknown.