Euryops virgatus B.Nord.

Erect shrublet, 2-5 dm high, repeatedly and densely branching from the base, with many short branchlets along the main branches, closely leafy at the branch ends and the short-branches, lower down nude and marked with leaf-scars, almost glabrous; cortex grey. Leaves closely set, erecto-patent, 3-15 mm long, 3-cleft or pinnatipartite with 2-4 pairs of lobes, coriaceous, dull or somewhat greyish green, sometimes laxly pilose along the midveins and sparsely woolly in the axils, otherwise glabrous; leaf-lobes opposite or subopposite, erecto-patent-almost spreading, straight and rather rigid, filiform or somewhat flattened, 1-5 mm long, slender, 0.2-0.5 mm wide, sub-obtuse, bluntly apiculate; rachis linear, apically filiform, 0.3-1.5 mm wide, widest and flat towards the base, faintly midveined. Peduncles lateral, solitary or few on each branchlet, 3-7 cm long (seldom shorter), 0.6-1 mm thick, erect or suberect, striate or somewhat sulcate, with two lateral leaves in the axil. Capitula nodding when young, erect during and after the anthesis. Involucre cupshaped with a narrow truncate base, widening above with rather straight sides to 5-8 mm in diam. Involucral bracts uni-seriate, 8-11, connate to 1/2-3/4, 4-6 mm long, coriaceous, mostly dark green with 3(-5) dark or orange-coloured veins; the free parts narrowly-broadly ovate or narrowly triangular-deltoid, 1-3 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, mostly acute, puberulous-tipped. Receptacle convex, distinctly alveolate. Ray-florets 5-8(-10), yellow. Tube (1-)1.5-2 mm long, narrowly cylindrical, finally inflated basally. Lamina lorate-narrowly oblan-ceolate, 6-8 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, 4-veined. Style terete with swollen base; style branches c. 1-2 mm long, obtuse-truncate. Disc-florets c. 20-40. Corolla 3.8-4.5 mm long. Tube 1.5-2.3 mm long, narrowly cylindrical, becoming inflated basally. Limb distinctly campanulate, 2-2.2 mm long; lobes ovate, 0.8-1 mm long. Anthers 1.5-1.8 mm long incl. the ovate-deltoid, acute appendage. Style sterile, terete or flattened with swollen base on a short stylophore, simple or shallowly lobed (lobes up to 0-3 mm long), apically truncate or somewhat convex. Pappus bristles few, 0.5-1.5 mm long, white, ± erect. Achenes elliptic-oblong-oblong-obovate, often somewhat compressed, 1.5-2.5 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, indistinctly ribbed, densely puberulous with short papilliform hairs, under the indumentum olive-yellowish brown or, especially apically, purplish brown and somewhat papillate, apically appendaged with the firm persistent corolla tube; indumentum whitish or light brownish, densest basally, becoming somewhat mucilaginous when soaked.