Paranomus centaureoides Levyns

A branched shrub, 1-1.4 m high. Young stems light brown, ribbed, with very short evanescent hairs between the ribs. Leaves 10-60 mm long, glabrous, coriaceous, crowded, erect, partially concealing the stem; the upper leaves entire, smaller, narrowly linear, channelled, with a gradual transition to scantily lobed leaves, the lobes confined to the upper half; apiculum shallow, obtuse. Spike from 20-25 mm long, sessile, cupped by the uppermost leaves, the lower bracts sterile, the fertile bracts few, confined to the upper part of the inflorescence, the lower bracts forming an almost globose dark chestnut brown involucre; the relatively small number of flowers projecting from the involucre in a tuft. Bracts subtending the partial inflorescences 8.8 mm long, 11 mm wide, coriaceous, somewhat orbicular, sometimes with a projecting point near the apex, finely and shortly ciliate, glabrous elsewhere. Floral bracts about 8 mm long, concealed by the subtending bract, oblong, obtuse, slightly widened at the base, ciliate with noticeably long hairs at the apex, a few weak scattered hairs near the apex. Perianth irt the mature bud 17-18 mm long, slender, the limb not much wider than the claw, hairs adpressed, all perianth segments alike. Style mostly glabrous, sometimes with a few short hairs immediately above the ovary; pollen presenter 2.5-2.8 mm long, slightly widened in the upper half.