Pteronia glauca Thunb.

A small bush 0.3-0.6 m [as '1-2 ft.'] high, usually trichotomously branched above; branches canous-pubescent; bark at first smooth, at length splitting. Leaves opposite, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute. 4-10 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, canous-tomentose. Heads 4-flowered, terminal, solitary, turbinate, 1.2-1.5 cm long, about 8 mm in diameter across the top. Involucral bracts 5-6-seriate, the outermost ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3 mm long, the innermost oblong lanceolate, all subacute, with membranous margins, a distinct midrib and a band of canous hairs up the middle. Receptacle fimbriate. Corolla 1 cm long; tube ribbed below, widened above; lobes 1-5 mm long, triangular-ovate, obtuse. Achenes 3 mm long, obovate, much contracted at the top, villous from the lower half. Pappus straw-coloured, 1 cm long.