Heterolepis anomala J.C.Manning & Goldblatt

Habit: sparsely-branched, compact shrublet generally to about 0.3 m high. Stems: young stems densely white-woolly, older stems sparsely white-woolly with thin dark bark; longitudinally striate, eglandular. Leaves: most dense at the lower ends of the branches, densely imbricate, erect, linear, terete, 8-18 x 0.9-1.5 mm, not becoming shorter acropetally, sessile, apex shortly mucronate, thickened and leathery, margins strongly revolute and very sparsely dentate with only (0-)1-3 tubercle-like teeth per leaf, adaxially sparsely white-woolly when young, becoming glabrous, mid-rib visible on adaxial surface, abaxial leaf surface densely white-tomentose except on green midrib, but this surface mostly obscured by the revolute margins. Peduncle: 25-110 mm long when mature, elongating rapidly on floral maturation, bearing one or two leaflike bracteoles, not woolly or only sparsely so, reddish-brown, faintly striate and densely invested with very fine to stout trichomes of type A. Capitula: discoid, in pressed specimens mature heads are 20-25 mm in diameter, containing about 20 florets (21 in Bohnen 9129). involucre: 7-15 mm across, fleshy portion of bract covered with large, conical, reddish-brown or pale trichomes (type A), outermost bracts narrowly deltoid-lanceolate, free portion 6-9 x 1.0-1.2 mm, densely glandular-scabrid; innermost bracts lacking trichomes, with free portion 10-13 x 2.0-4.0 mm. Receptacle: alveole margins with irregular, very shallow projections. Disc florets: pale yellow, 9-10 mm long, tube sparsely glandular with type B trichomes, corolla lobes broadly acute, 3 mm in length, margins with a dark outline. Style apex slightly thickened at tuft of sweeping-hairs; stigmatic branches short, apices truncate to very slightly cleft. Apical anther appendages short, deltoid; anther bases with acute tails about 0.8 mm long. Pappus: of approximately 18-22 robust, brittle, cartilaginous straw-coloured bristle-like scales, free; inner series ± 8 mm long, slightly shorter than the corolla (coming to about halfway up the corolla lobes), outer series ± 6 mm long. Individual pappus bristles of both series widened near base (to about 0.4 mm wide), tapering towards apex. Bristle margins plumose, plumes golden-straw coloured, upwardly-directed. Cypsela: twin-hairs straw-coloured or reddish-brown. Flowering time: the five collections of this species are mostly from different months: three in late summer / early winter (March and April) and two in early to mid-summer (October and December).