Euryops proteoides B.Nord. & V.R.Clark

A vigorous erect glabrous moderately branched shrub ca. 1-2.2 m high; branches densely leafy towards the tips, becoming nude and marked with scale-like remains of leaf-bases. Leaves alternate, sessile, erecto-patent to spreading, sessile, narrowly oblong-obovate, cuneate towards the base, 3-6 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, flat, somewhat coriaceous, greyish green, closely pinnately many-veined with subparallel fine veins, entire but distally 9-12-toothed; teeth ovate, 1-2 mm long, acute or acuminate; leaf-base half-clasping. Capitula solitary or few, terminal, radiate, honey-scented. Peduncle terminal, nude, simple, equalling the leaves in length or somewhat shorter. Involucre broadly campanulate or hemispherical, 2-2.5 cm wide; involucral bracts 9-13, subuniseriate, 10-15 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, connate to approximately the middle, glabrous, many (7-9)-veined; the free lobes ovate-triangular, acute. Receptacle convex, nude, minutely alveolate. Ray-florets 14-19. Corolla yellow; tube cylindrical, 2.5-3 mm long; lamina narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 14-18 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm wide, 4-5-veined. Style branches narrowly oblong, ca. 1 mm long, with distinctly separated stigmatic areas. Disc-florets numerous. Corolla yellow, 6.5 mm long; tube 3-3.5 mm long, cylindrical; limb campanulate, 3-3.5 mm long; lobes narrowly ovate, 1.5 mm long, mid-lined and with marginal veins. Anthers 2.5 mm long incl. the triangular-ovate apical appendage; base ecaudate, slightly sagittate; filament collar oblong, short. Style branches narrowly oblong, ca. 1 mm long, with separated stigmatic areas, apically convex and with lateral sweeping-hairs. Cypselas narrowly elliptic-oblong, some-times somewhat triquetrous or curved, 5-6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, ca. 8-ribbed, greyish brown, puberulous with appressed papilliform white obtuse hairs. Pappus bristles copious, 4-5 mm long, white, barbellate, caducous. It has a short flowering period confined almost completely to October.