Pteronia camphorata (L.) L.

A shrub 1-3 ft. high; branches pale, scabrid with small hook-like short setae. Leaves tufted, or if scattered then alternate, acicular, acute, glabrous except for a row of short white teeth on each infolded margin, 1-1.3 cm long, about 1 mm thick, much shorter than the flower-heads. Heads terminal, solitary or often up to 5 in a corymb, well exserted from the leaves, pedunculate, the peduncles bearing smaller leaves, subeampanulate, about 1.5 cm long and the same in diameter. Involucral bracts about 5-seriate, shorter than the flowers; the outermost linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, about 3 mm long; the intermediate lanceolate, acute, with a distinct keel in the upper half; the innermost linear-lanceolate, about 1 cm long, acute; all straw-coloured or brownish straw-coloured and shortly and closely ciliate, otherwise glabrous. Receptacle setose and deeply pitted. Corolla yellow, 1 cm long, gradually widened upwards, very sparingly pubescent; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, 2 mm long. Achenes 3-4 mm long, flattened, glabrous and shining. Pappus sub-uniseriate, connate into a ring at the base, about 1 cm long, whitish straw-coloured.