Lopholaena dregeana Dc.

Succulent, perennial herb, 0.4-1.0 m high, glabrous, 1-several, stout, simple stems from a woody stock, stems nude, rough with leaf scars basally, leafy above. Leaves up to 60 x 25 mm, oblong-elliptic, entire, narrowed basally, not decurrent, glaucous. Capitula 1-3 on short-shoots in upper leaf axils, forming a leafy panicle; involucre 15 x 5 mm, ± enlarged in fruit; bracts ± 5, each with a broad, median, longitudinal wing. Flowering time Mar.-July. Pappus of many white hairs. Cypselae ± 9 mm long, narrowly turbinate, often ± curved and 3-angled, closely ribbed, hirsute.