Pteronia divaricata (P.J.Bergius) Less.

A scrubby busb 1.2-2.4 m [as '4-8 ft.'] high; branchlets opposite, finely puberulous. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, obovate-elliptic or sometimes nearly orbicular, narrowed at the base, 2-3 cm long, 1-2 cm broad, trinerved from the base, subcoriaceous, fiat, finely scabrid-puberulous on both surfaces and on the margin. Heads corymbose, several at the end of each branchlet, pedunculate, about 5-flowered, turbinate, about 1.5 cm long; peduncles up to 1.5 cm long, slender, densely puberulous. Involucral bracts 4-5-seriate; the outermost broadly ovate, about 2.5 mm long; the innermost linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 8 mm long; all membranous and often bright green when dry, glabrous. Receptacle small. Corolla 1-1.2 cm long, gradually widened upwards, ribbed and pubescent below the middle; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, 3 mm long. Anthers exserted. Achenes 5 mm long, sparingly pubescent, glandular. Pappus 0.8-1 cm long, nearly white or reddish-white.