Dicerothamnus rhinocerotis (L.F.) Koek.

Single or multi-stemmed, much branched, erect, often rigid shrubs, up to 1.8 m tall, with a general grey-green appearance. Main stem up to 50 mm diam. Branches up to 8 mm diam., older branches grey, with a flaky outer bark, younger branches profusely branched into fine flowering shoots, up to 1 mm diam., these branches sparsely or densely white-tomentose to a variable degree. Leaves persistent for ± 2 or 3 seasons, generally deltate, scale-like and closely adpressed, rarely overlapping, 1.5 x 0.5 mm, occasionally lanceolate, 2.0 x 0.5 mm, and spreading somewhat, exposing the woolly white-tomentose stems; very densely glandular, glands small and sessile, usually not visible under a matted layer of hair; hair often saturated by exudate and then sticky. Capitula homogamous, discoid, (2-or) 3-flowered, solitary or in groups of 2-4, terminal on flowering shoots, occasionally on short, closely spaced brachyblasts on the upper part of branches, brachyblasts up to 30 mm long, pendular with solitary terminal floret head. Receptacle conical, stalk-like. Involucral bracts ± 20, outermost scale-like and leafy, innermost lanceolate, up to 4 x 1 mm, chaffy, tips of innermost bracts rounded and slightly winged on the sides. Disc florets very dark plum-red, tube up to 3 mm long, lobes remaining straight at anthesis. Cypselas up to 2 mm long, often a dark plum-red colour, asymmetrical, abaxial side smooth, adaxial side with 3 or 4 ribs, annulus well-developed. Pappus setae 10-18, fused at the base, plumose almost from the base, plumes ascending, of even length, tufted at the tips.