Euryops discoideus Burtt Davy

A perennial herb, probably with a lignified subterranean caudex. Stems very short, with crowded leaves and long slender peduncles. Leaves erect-erecto-patent, narrowly linear, 3-7 cm long, 0.7-1.5 mm wide from a somewhat dilated base, hispid on the adaxial side and along the margins esp. towards the base, glabrous on the abaxial side, ± distinctly midribbed, entire or some leaves 2-3-lobed above the middle; lobes 5-12 mm long, acute-short-acuminate. Peduncles erect, c. 20 cm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, striate, glabrous. Involucre hemispherical, 7-8 mm wide, glabrous. Involucral bracts 13-15, uniseriate, connate to the middle, somewhat coriaceous, indistinctly veined; the free lobes narrowly ovate, 2-2.5 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, with puberulous margins and tips. Ray-florets 0. Disc-florets: Corolla 2.5-2.8 mm long. Tube 0.7-0.9 mm long, cylindrical. Limb campanulate, 1.8-2 mm long; lobes deltoid-ovate, c. 0.8 mm long. Anthers 1.2-1.3 mm long incl. appendage. Style branches 0.3 mm long. Pappus bristles few, 0.3-1 mm long, flexuous, white. Ovary oblong, ribbed, puberulous. Achenes unknown.