Emilia transvaalensis (Bolus) C.Jeffrey

Annual herb or suffrutex (occasionally perennial), 15-45 cm tall. Stems branching, cobwebby, especially around the axils of younger leaves, glabrescent, striate. Leaves closely clustered, linear-elliptic or narrowly to broadly oblanceolate to oblong, 15-50 x 2-10, glaucous, grey-green or pale green, slightly fleshy, cobwebby when young, especially on lower surface, glabrescent; apex acute to obtuse; base clasping, sessile; margins entire (occasionally dentate in the upper half of the leaf). Capitula solitary on long naked peduncles, discoid, homogamous, 4.5-10 mm in diameter (at apices of involucral bracts when pressed) with 15-35 florets, peduncles glabrous, (50-)80-240 mm long. Involucre campanulate, phyllaries green with pale scarious margins, 4.5-7 x 1.5-2(-3) mm, glabrous. Disc florets pale pink, lilac or mauve, corolla 5-7.5 mm long with narrow tube to half or slightly more than half the length (2.5-4 mm long) with glandular lobes 1-1.7 mm long; stamens: anthers c. 2 mm long with narrow acute appendage, filament collar balusterform; style branches c. 0.8 mm long, apices rounded to truncate, fringed by short papillae. Cypselas 3.5-4.5 mm long, cylindric, 5-angled, dark brown to black with short white duplex hairs along the ribs, mucilaginous when wet, pappus white, 3-5 mm long, bristles caducous.