Glia pilulosa B.-e.van Wyk

Perennial geophyte with slender, erect, basally branched stems arising from short, persistent woody caudex at ground level; root single, fleshy (size unknown). Leaves pinnate to bipinnate, large, up to 280 mm long, foliaceous, with broad segments, distinctly pilulose with widely but evenly spaced, short, thin spreading hairs, bright green to greyish green; cauline leaves few, much reduced in size, with linear segments. Inflorescence much branched, with small bracts along peduncle; lateral branches with terminal umbel and up to 3 lateral umbels; lateral umbels ± equal to terminal umbel, usually extending above terminal umbel; rays (4-)6 or 7, slender, (5-)10-26 mm long; raylets 4-18, 1-2 mm long. Flowers small, 1.5-2 mm long; petals yellow. Fruit obovate in lateral view, small, ±4.5 x 3.5 mm, oblong in dorsal view, ±4.5 x 2 mm, mericarps isodiametric; median, lateral and marginal ribs indistinct.