Seriphium saxatilis (Levyns) Koek.

An intricately branched shrub, up to 0.6 m tall. Branches woolly when young, becoming more or less glabrous with age, secondary and tertiary branches at right angles, respectively to primary and secondary branches, densely leafy. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 2.5 mm long, incurved, antrorse, closely and somewhat obliquely set, both surfaces densely woolly. Synflorescences terminal, small clusters of easily distinguishable capitula, occasionally with a few subterminal clusters. Capitula 1-flowered. Receptacle stalk-like. Involucral bracts 10-12, in few rows, outer short and similar to the leaves; inner scarious, acute, about the length of the florets. Disc florets bisexual, 3 mm long, upper part plum-red; corolla lobes small erect, triangular, slightly reflexed at maturity. Stamens 5, apical appendages narrowly lanceolate, basally tailed. Style bifid, branches exserted and reflexed at maturity, base bulbous. Nectaries absent. Cypselas not seen. Pappus setae 16-20, slightly joined at the base, about two thirds the length of the corolla.