Corymbium laxum Compton

Roots wiry. Leaves glabrous; blades narrowly linear to sub-falcate, sometimes canaliculate, (100-)190(-280) mm long, (1.5-)2.5(-3.5) mm broad, apex acute, base dilated, clasping with submembranous margins, silky hairs prominent, margins involute, sometimes scariose; veins not prominent; texture coriaceous; cauline leaves glabrous, much shorter 5-54 mm long, 1-2 mm broad, base clasping, lower ones decurrent, becoming less decurrent and smaller upwards, passing into bracts. Corymbophore ellipic in cross section, glabrous, (200-)280(-350) mm long, 1-1.5 mm in diameter, branching of corymbophore strictly dichotomous. Heads solitary, distinctly pendunculate, arranged in a lax panicle. Involucral bracts glabrous, upper involucral bracts subtended by 3 smaller bracts, upper involucral bracts (9-)10(-11.5) mm long, apex fimbriate, hyaline, greenish purple. Flowers mauve, pedicel present. Petals oblong-elliptic 6.0-8 mm long, ca. 2 mm broad; corolla tube 4-6 mm long. Anthers 3.5-5 mm long including the base. Ovary hirsute, style branches ca. 2 mm long, obtuse. Cypselas ca. 5 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm broad, linear to ovoid. Pappus coroniform at base, fimbriate, bristles many, 1 mm long.