Oldenburgia paradoxa Less.

Dwarf cushion-forming shrub with thick woody branches and silky-woolly leaf-bases. Cushions up to 1 m square. Leaves narrow-elliptic, obtuse, 10-50 mm long, 3-12 mm wide. Capitula sessile. Involucre ovoid becoming campanulate with age. Involucral bracts almost hidden by the silky-woolly leaf-bases, 3-4-seriate, lanceolate, acuminate, up to 300 mm long, 15 mm wide, silky-woolly with glabrescent tips. Ray florets 8-22, white, tube 6-10 mm long, outer lip 3-toothed, 15-20 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, inner lobes 8-11 mm long, anthers 9-11 mm long including 3-mm long tails; style 25-30 mm long; achenes elliptic, dense-hairy, 5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide; pappus of 14-20 subplumose bristles, mostly about 17 mm long but several only 7-9 mm long. Disc florets about 80, white, appearing yellow in bud, tube 9-13 mm long, lobes 8-11 mm long; anthers 9-12 mm long, including 3-mm long tails; gynoecium as in ray florets.