Corymbium theileri Markötter

Roots wiry. Basal leaves glabrous; blades linear to falcate (130-)170(-200) mm long, (3.5-)6.4(-8) mm broad, apex acute, leaf base broad, clasping with submembranous margins, silky hairs prominent, margins smooth, thickened, venation prominent; texture cartilaginous; cauline leaves glabrous, margins slightly scabrid, sometimes lower parts scabrid; 5-80 mm long, 1-7 mm broad, base clasping or half-clasping, lower ones sometimes decurrent becoming less decurrent and smaller passing into bracts. Corymbophore terete to elliptic, scabrid, base villous, (140-)230(-300) mm long, 1.5-3 mm in diameter. Heads in corymbose clusters arranged in a lax panicle. Involucral bracts scabrid, viscid when fresh; uppermost involucral bracts subtended by 2 or 3 smaller bracts, upper involucral bracts (10.5-)12.0(-13.5) mm, apex trifid, green, tinged with purple. Flowers mauve; pedicel present ca. 1 mm long. Petals linear to elliptic ca. 6 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm broad; corolla tube ca. 5 mm long, cylindrical. Anthers ca. 3 mm long including base. Ovary hirsute; style branches ca. 2.5 mm long, obtuse. Cypselas ca. 5 mm long, ca. 1 mm broad, linear. Pappus coroniform, bristles fused more than half the length, ca. 1.5 mm long.