Nolletia gariepina Mattf.

Scattered to densely leafy, compact dwarf or small shrub up to 0.6 m high. Older branches woody, often reddish, green and herbaceous upwards; sparsely to densely spreading pubescent and stipitate-glandular. Leaves alternate, sessile, usually narrowly obovate, sometimes narrowly elliptic, rarely linear-obovate, (3-)4-15(-22) x (0.8-)1.0-2.5(-3.0) mm (the longer, the broader); apex bluntly acute to obtuse; margin entire; sparsely to densely spreading pubescent and stipitate-glandular. Capitula heterogamous, disciform, 8-10 mm in diameter, solitary at ends of branches, pedunculate. Peduncle sparsely to densely spreading pubescent and stipitate-glandular. Involucre campanulate. Involucral bracts imbricate, in 3 or 4 rows, green, sometimes tinged purplish, often with yellow or orange oil sacs along midline, persistent and recurved in old inflorescences; outer row narrowly oblong to narrowly ovate to narrowly obovate, 2.0-2.5 x 0.3-1.0 mm, apex acute to acuminate, often with tuft of hairs, margin sometimes membranous, fimbriate, spreading pubescent and stipitate-glandular; second row narrowly oblong to narrowly obovate, 2.2-3.0 x 0.5-1.0 mm, apex acute to acuminate, often with tuft of hairs, margin sometimes membranous, fimbriate, spreading pubescent and stipitate-glandular; third row narrowly obovate, 3-4 x 0.5-0.6 mm, apex acute to acuminate, margin narrowly membranous, fimbriate, spreading pubescent and stipitate-glandular in upper third; inner row narrowly obovate, 3-4 x 0.5-0.8 mm, apex acuminate, margin membranous, fimbriate, sparsely spreading pubescent and stipitate-glandular in upper third. Receptacle epaleate, foveolate. Outer female florets 25-35, in 1 row, fertile, shortly radiate; tubular below, tube 1-2 mm long, with glandular hairs; limb shortly 3-lobed, lobes 0.5-1.0 mm long, shorter than or as long as style branches; corolla yellow, sometimes purplish in upper part. Style 2.0-2.5 mm long, bifurcate; style branches linear-elliptic, 0.5-1.0 mm long, bluntly acute to obtuse; stigmatic areas marginal, confluent at apex; some female florets with style branches similar to those of bisexual florets. Cypsela and pappus as in disc florets. Disc florets 32-62, regular, bisexual, fertile; tubular below, tube 2.5-3.0 mm long, with glandular hairs; 5-lobed, lobes 0.5 mm long, often with dark resinous margins; corolla yellow, sometimes with purplish tinge. Anthers 1.5-2.0 mm long; with narrowly ovate apical appendages; base slightly caudate, ecalcarate; filament collar with thickened cell walls. Style 2.0-3.5 mm long, bifurcate; style branches 0.5-1.0 mm long, with deltoid-penicillate, apical appendages; stigmatic areas marginal. Cypsela dark brown with whitish, thickened margin, obovoid, laterally flattened, 1.5-2.0 x 0.5-1.0 mm; appressed pubescent consisting of twin hairs, equal to subequal in length, apices of twin hairs acute, rarely slightly broadened; epicarpic cells oblong, arranged in parallel rows. Pappus of caducous, barbellate bristles, 2-3 mm long.