Pteronia leptospermoides Dc.

A shrub 0.6-0.9 m [as '2-3 ft.'] high. Branches glabrous, the young ones often somewhat glaucous; branchlets opposite. Leaves opposite, 0.9-1.5 cm long, 1.3 mm broad, linear or oblanceolate-linear, acute or subacute, narrowed and free at the base, flat or when very narrow almost terete and club-shaped, whitish woolly pubescent within the base for about 3 mm., otherwise glabrous. Heads about 5-7-flowered, subcylindric, subacute when young, 2 cm long. Involucral bracts few, about 3-seriate, closely imbricate, lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, concave within, glabrous. Receptacle flat, honeycombed. Corolla white, pubescent; lobes lanceolate, subobtuse, 2.5 mm long, glabrous. Style-branches 2 mm long, linear, subacute, papillous on the uppermost third. Achenes long-pilose from the lower part and pubescent on the remaining portion. Pappus setae unequal, up to 7 mm long, reddish.