Euryops tenuilobus (Dc.) B.Nord.

A slender erect shrublet, glabrous except for some wool around the peduncle-bases, repeatedly branching, usually di-or trichotomously. Young branches leafy; older branches with appressed lanceolate persistent leaf-bases, with grey or brownish cortex, rather thin. Leaves erecto-patent-spreading, 0.5-1.5 cm long, tripartite or pinnatipartite in the lower half with 2-3 pairs of usually opposite lobes; rachis and lobes slender, filiform, c. 0.5 mm wide, ± terete; leaf-lobes c. 5 (2-9) mm long, acuminate with often white fine tips. Peduncles terminal and solitary, 5-10 cm long, c. 0.5 mm thick, faintly few-striate, sometimes with a woolly tuft surrounding the base. Involucre widely cupshaped, c. 1 cm in diam. or less. Involucral bracts uniseriate, c. 13, connate for c. 1/3, lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, acuminate, somewhat coriaceous, 3-veined, glabrous except for the very minutely puberulous tips. Receptacle convex, distinctly alveolate. Ray-florets c. 13, yellow (fide De Candolle reddish on the lower side). Tube cylindrical, somewhat inflated at the base, 1-1.5 mm long. Lamina linear, 7-9 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, 4-veined. Style branches c. 0.5 mm long, truncate. Disc-florets c. 50. Corolla c. 3 mm long, with a distinctly campanulate limb. Tube cylindrical, 1.2-1.5 mm long. Limb 1.5-1.8 mm long; lobes ovate, c. 1 mm long, acute. Anthers c. 1.2 mm long incl. the ovate appendage. Style terete with swollen base; tip convex, only very shallowly lobed (lobes c. 0.1-0.2 mm). Pappus 0. Achenes oblong-obovate, sometimes slightly triquetrous and curved, c. 2 mm long and 1 mm wide, glabrous, distinctly tuberculate-muricate, blackish, with 5-7 rather indistinct but coarse longitudinal ridges.