Sorocephalus capitatus Rourke

An erect well branched shrub with a strong main stem, 0-75-1 m tall, branching at 0-25 m. Stems slender, covered with closely clasping densely imbricate leaves. Leaves 6-12 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, slightly 3 ridged on the upper surface, otherwise flattened, sparsely sericeous at first becoming scabrous glabrescent later. Inflorescence terminal, single or with up to three inflorescences terminating a flowering shoot, globose, 2-3 cm in diam. Involucres 8-9 flowered, densely clustered together. Perianth limbs of the innermost flowers of the involucre glabrous, perianth limbs of the outermost flowers woolly. Bracts narrowly lanceolate to broadly ovate, 9 mm long, 1-5 mm broad. Outer surface usually glabrous, occasionally sparsely sericeous, margins densely ciliate. Bracteoles lanceolate to narrowly ovate, glabrous. Perianth 12 mm long. Perianth limbs narrowly ovate, woolly to glabrous. Perianth claws linear, densely woolly. Perianth tube 5 mm long, sericeous above, becoming glabrous and slightly inflated at the base. Anthers sessile, elliptic, apical boss black, pointed. Style filiform, 9 mm long. Pollen presenter capitate, with a terminal stigmatic papilla. Ovary ellipsoid, sericeous, 1 mm. long. Hypogynous scales linear subulate, 3 mm long, arching up over the ovary. Fruits glabrous, cylindrical, narrowly emarginate at the base, 6 mm long, 2 mm broad.