Dicerothamnus adpressus (Harv.) Koek.

A low, erect shrub up to 0.45 m tall, with rigid, whip-like branches and a yellow-green colour; leaves, branches and outer involucre woolly-hairy when young. Brachyblasts short, developing below the terminal inflorescence. Leaves generally lanceolate, narrow, ericoid, closely adpressed to the branches, sparse or dense, but rarely overlapping, 2.0-2.5(-5.0) x 0.5 mm, very densely glandular underneath a woolly-hairy overlayer, glands on very short stalks, almost sessile; hairs becoming drenched in glandular exudate and appearing shiny and smooth with age. Capitula homogamous, discoid, 3-(or 4-)flowered, solitary in the last 1-20 terminal leaf axils on flowering shoots, often arranged in a spike-like manner; occasionally compound inflorescences are found with capitula on brachyblasts below terminal inflorescences. Receptacle small, conical and stalk-like. Involucral bracts ± 15, glandular on adaxial side; outer bracts ± 10, foliaceous, 1.0-3.5 x up to 0.5 mm; innermost bracts ± 5 in a single row, hyaline, papery, up to 5 x up to 1 mm, tips acute. Disc florets up to 4 mm long, lower half tough and cells distinctly thickened, lobes remaining straight during anthesis. Cypselas asymmetrical, smooth on outer side, with 4 ribs on inner side, outer coat tough and often pinkish; inner coat a soft, thin brown layer. Pappus of 14-18 setae, fused in the lower fifth, plumose almost from the base, plumes of even lengths, ascending, tufted at the tips.