Corymbium africanum L.

Roots fibrous or wiry. Basal leaves glabrous; blades linear to falcate (50-) 100(-200) mm long, (1-)4(-10.5) mm broad, flat, slightly involute or filiform, sometimes chanelled, apex acute, silky hairs prominent at the base, base dilated, clasping or half-clasping, sometimes with submembranous margins, margins sometimes thickened, veins not prominent; texture coriaceous to cartilaginous; cauline leaves scabrid, sometimes lower ones smooth 5-50 mm long, 1-4 mm broad, base clasping or half clasping, lower ones decurrent becoming less decurrent and smaller upwards, passing into bracts. Corymbophore terete, scabrid, (40-)175(-350) mm long, 1-2 mm in diameter. Heads in corymbose clusters arranged in a corymb or panicle. Involucral bracts scabrid, viscid when fresh; upper involucral bracts subtended by 2 or 3 smaller bracts, upper involucral bracts (6.5-)8.8(-11) mm, apex fimbriate, usually green with purple tips or tinged purple when fresh. Flowers mauve, pink or white; pedicel present 0.5-1 mm long. Petals linear to oblong-elliptic 4-7 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad; corolla tube 1.5-4 mm long, cylindrical. Anthers 1.5-3 mm long including base. Ovary hirsute; style branches ca. 1.5 mm long, obtuse. Cypselas ca. 4 mm long, ca. 1 mm broad, linear to ovoid. Pappus coroniform at base, fimbriate, bristles many, up to 2 mm long.