Paranomus dispersus Levyns

A branched shrub, 80-140 cm high, the stems covered with short curled hairs. Leaves up to 8 cm long, all alike, dissected or some of the uppermost scantily lobed or entire, tips of the lobes often flattened, apiculum short, obtuse. Spike somewhat lax, 25-90 mm long. Peduncle and bracts den sely villous or tomentose, bracts on the peduncle linear-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, adpressed. Bracts subtending the partial inflorescences shorter or a little longer than the floral bracts, lanceolate, acuminate near the base of the spike, the upper becoming ovate, tomentose, ciliate, glabrous near the apex. Floral bracts somewhat less than half the length of the perianth, ovate, acute or obtuse, concave, tomentose, ciliate. Perianth 14-18 mm long in the fully developed bud, shortly and closely hairy for most of the length but with longer hairs on the limbs, all segments similar. Style with weak hairs in the middle part, the hairs scanty in the Swartberg form, pollen presenter.6-1 mm long, a little wider than the style, sometimes slightly clavate.