Elytropappus hispidus Druce

Usually a small, multi-stemmed shrub up to ± 0.3 m tall, branching copiously from ground level. Branches leafy for most of its length. Leaves linear to oblanceolate, twisted near the base, mucronate, closely set, erecto-patent, 2-10 mm long, to 1 mm wide, very sparsely glandular, often glabrous, margins slightly involute. Glands multicellular, stalks up to 0.5 mm long, base broad, narrowing into a slender stalk; heads multicellular, almost as broad as the base, secreting a sticky exudate. Capitula homogamous, discoid, 3-or 4-flowered, florets white, several heads massed together in terminal, rounded synflorescences. Disc florets up to 5 mm long, widening trumpet-like towards the tip, lobes reflexed and spreading, up to 5 mm in diam. at anthesis, cells on adaxial lobe surface much inflated, the lower third of the tube thickened and tough. Receptacle small, stalk-like. Involucral bracts ± 10, up to 5 mm long, adaxial surfaces hairy, tips shortly mucronate, rounded and slightly winged to the sides. Cypselas distinctly transversely ribbed, hard, usually brightly coloured in shades of yellow and orange; annulus distinct, well-developed. Pappus setae 14-18; 4.0-4.5 mm long, fused at the base, barbed in lower half; plumose in upper half, plumes sporadically interspersed with barbs, somewhat congested towards the apex.