Euryops brevilobus Compton

An erect, stout, mostly sparingly branching shrub, up to 1.5 m high, glabrous, with surface resin. Branches laxly leafy, becoming nude with age and marked with leaf-scars; cortex yellowish-light brownish or ochre-coloured, striate-sulcate. Leaves erecto-patent, linear-filiform, 3-11 cm long, pinnatipartite with 2-7 pairs of lobes, rigid and coriaceous; leaf-lobes + rigid and spreading, up to 3 cm long but usually much shorter, the longest on the middle of the leaf, subterete or slightly flattened, 1-2 mm wide, acute or apiculate. Peduncles terminal, solitary, erect, 6-22 cm long, 1.5-3(-4) mm thick, stout, terete, smooth or finely striate. Involucre ± urceolate, flat-based or rounded, 12-22 mm wide, 8-13 mm high, firm and coriaceous, brown-straw-coloured. Involucral bracts 17-23, uniseriate, connate high up; the free lobes narrowly triangular, 4-6 mm long, with puberulous margins and tips. Receptacle flat, distinctly alveolate with raised pit-margins. Ray-florets 20-30, light pure yellow. Tube cylindrical with inflated base, 3-5 mm long. Lamina narrowly oblanceolate, 15-40 mm long, 4-7 mm wide, 7(-9)-nerved. Style flattened with swollen base; style branches 1-1.5 mm long, truncate. Disc-florets numerous (c. 80-200). Corolla 6-7.5 mm long, tubular, gradually widening above; lobes ovate, 0.7-0.8 mm long. Anthers 2-3 mm long incl. the ovate appendage. Style terete-somewhat flattened, with swollen base; style branches 1-1.5 mm long, with convex tips. Pappus bristles numerous, 2-4 mm long, white, outer reflexed. Achenes narrowly lanceolate-oblong-elliptic-oblong-oblanceolate-oblong, 5-6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, somewhat flattened, angled or curved, glabrous, with 5-8 irregular or indistinct ribs.