Pteronia cinerea L.F.

A small shrub often growing amongst rocks; branches softly canous-pubescent when young, at length glabrous. Leaves opposite, slightly connate at the base, spathulate-linear, obtuse, 4-10 mm long 2-2.5 mm broad, coriaceous, canous-pubescent or tomentose. Heads terminal, solitary, turbinate-campanulate, 2-2.3 cm long, about 1 cm across the top. Involucral bracts about 8-seriate, the outermost triangular-ovate, about 5 mm long, the innermost oblong-lanceolate, about 1.3 cm long, all chaffy-membranous, with a distinct midrib and woolly-pubescent more or less all over the upper half outside, margins membranous and jagged. Receptacle pitted. Corolla 1.1 cm long; tube ribbed in the lower part, glabrous; lobes lanceolate, 1.5 mm long. Achenes 4-5 mm long, densely appressed-silky-villous. Pappus straw-coloured, 1 cm long.