Pteronia pallens L.F.

A small bush up to 0.6 m. high. Branches glabrous, with greyish-white bark. Leaves opposite, slightly connate at the base, linear-acicular, obtuse, with a narrow groove on the upper side, 1-3 cm long, about 1 mm thick, glabrous. Heads 11-12-flowered, solitary, shortly pedunculate, turbinate-campanulate, about 1.3 cm long. Involucral bracts about 6-seriate, increasing upwards; the outermost ovate-elliptic, about 1.5 mm long; the innermost linear, 7 mm long, about 1.25 mm broad; all rounded at the apex and shortly ciliate, slightly keeled, not membranous. Receptacle flat, 3 mm in diameter, deeply honeycombed and rather long-setose. Corolla 8 mm long, gradually widened upwards, glabrous; lobes narrowly triangular, obtuse, scarcely 1 mm long. Anthers 3 mm long. Achene 3 mm long, densely villous. Pappus light straw-coloured, 6 mm long.