Sorocephalus alopecurus Rourke

An erect, sparsely branched shrub, 1 m tall. Branches stout, terete, covered with long, loosely imbricate leaves. Leaf scars on branches prominent. Leaves acicular terete, mucronate, upper surface canaliculate, glabrous, 30-50 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, cylindrical, single or clustered, often with a well developed lanate peduncle. Inflorescence 5-6 cm long, 2 cm in diam. Involucral bracts at base of peduncle, linear attenuate, sericeous, 5-6 mm long. Involucres 8-9 flowered, subtended by a narrowly lanceolate acuminate bract, glabrous at apex, villous at base. Bracteoles narrowly ovate narrowing to the base, very densely lanate. Perianth limbs narrowly ovate, hirsute to villous. Perianth claws filiform, much twisted below the perianth limbs. Perianth tube glabrous, 3 mm long, distinctly quadrangular, inflated at the base. Style filiform, 10 mm long, terminated by an ovoid pollen presenter. Ovary ellipsoidal, 1-5 mm long, sericeous. Hypogynous scales linear subulate, somewhat flattened. Fruits oblong ovoid, glabrous, broadly emarginate at the base.