Euryops nodosus B.Nord.

A moderately or richly branching, fairly lax, erect shrub or shrublet, 3-9 dm high, glabrous (except for some lax wool at the peduncle-bases), leafy at the branch ends, lower down nude and knotted with persistent leaf-bases. Cortex mostly ash-grey, sometimes light greyish brown. Leaves moderately close-set, erect-erecto-palent, linear, entire, 0.8-1.5 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, thickish and somewhat fleshy, rugulose (esp. after drying), bright-dark green, acute or sometimes almost obtuse, apiculate with a fine, subpungent, at length firm and white point; adaxial side flat, narrowly impressed-veined; abaxial side convex, faintly midveined; leaf-base constricted, with a distinct abaxial usually brown or reddish hunch, remaining as a knot on the denuded older branches. Peduncles lateral in the upper (or next to upper) leaf-axils, ± erect, (0.5-)1-4 cm long, 0.4-0.8 mm thick, terete or faintly striate, usually straw-coloured, few to several on each branch, basally surrounded by a small tuft of loose wool and 2 lateral subulate reduced leaves. Involucre hemispherical, 5-8(-10) mm in diam. Involucral bracts subuniseriate, usually 8(7-10), connate at the base only; the free parts narrowly oblong-ovate-lanceolate, 3.5-5 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, distinctly (1-)3-veined with thick yellowish resiniferous veins, normally with a blue-purplish tinge towards the apex, acute-obtuse with puberulous tips; margins sometimes submembranous; inside whitish and somewhat glossy. Receptacle flat or slightly convex, distinctly alveolate. Ray-florets 5-9, yellow. Tube c. 1 mm long, cylindrical. Lamina elliptic-oblong, 3-4 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, 4-veined. Style terete with somewhat swollen base; style branches 0.5-0.7 mm long, obtuse-truncate. Disc-florets c. 15-30. Corolla 3.2-4 mm long. Tube 1.0-1.5 mm long, cylindrical. Limb narrowly campanulate, 2.2-2.5 mm long; lobes deltoid, 0.6-0.8 mm long. Anthers 1.3-1.9 mm long incl. the ovate obtuse appendage. Style terete with slightly swollen base; style branches 0.4-0.7 mm long, with truncate or somewhat convex tips. Pappus bristles numerous, c. 1 mm long, erect, white. Achenes narrowly obovate-narrowly oblong, 2.5-3 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, densely villous with white or light brownish, erect-erecto-patent hairs, mucilaginous when soaked, with c. 8 narrow veins under the indumentum. The specific epithet alludes to the characteristic hunch-backed leaf-bases, which remain as knots on the denuded branches.