Oedera steyniae (L.Bolus) Anderb. & K.Bremer

A moderately branched, up to c. 0.3 m high shrublet. Stems ascending-erect, tomentose, densely leafy, becoming glabrous and nude and marked with leaf-scars. Leaves decussate, in four distinct rows, densely set, spreading, carinate, mid-ribbed, lanceolate, 8-18 mm long, 1.5-3.5 mm wide, glabrous but marginally pilose, acuminate, pungent. Capitula 3-9 together in dense terminal cymes. Peduncles very short or 0. Involucre cyathiform, 3-6 mm wide. Involucral bracts 20-40, outer ovate, inner gradually narrower and oblong, innermost narrowly oblong-narrowly obovate with a somewhat spreading, brown apical limb, up to 7 mm long, up to 2 mm wide, innermost dorsally gland-dotted, obtuse-rounded. Receptacle convex, paleate. Paleae canaliculate, linear, 5-7 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, dorsally gland-dotted, acute. Ray-florets 8-16. Tube cylindrical, 2-2.5 mm long, densely glandular. Lamina elliptic, 2.5-3.5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, 4-veined. Style 3.5-4.5 mm long; style-branches 1.5-1.8 mm long. Achenes as in disc-florets. Disc-florets 25-40, perfect. Corolla 3.5-5.3 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide. Tube cylindrical, densely glandular on upper half. Limb narrowly cyathiform; corolla lobes 0.6-0.8 mm long, dorsally ± gland-dotted. Style 3.5-5 mm long; style-branches 0.7-1 mm long, apically penicillate and truncate; stylopodium distinct. Anthers 2.1-2.4 mm long; tails c. 1/3 of the length of the anther. Achenes almost terete, narrowly oblong, 2-3 mm long, 0.4-0.6 mm wide, glabrous; pappus crownlike, of ± connate scales, up to 0.8 mm long.