Sorocephalus claviger Hutch.

An erect sparingly branched shrub to 1 m tall. Branches stout, terete, tomentellous when young, glabrous later, the older branches covered with rough leaf scars. Leaves imbricate, acicular terete, 7-25 mm long. Apex mucronate, upper surface of leaf canaliculate, pilose when young, soon glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, single, globose to broadly cylindrical, up to 4 cm in diam. Bracts narrowly lanceolate acute, glabrous to villous, up to 12 mm long. Involucres 6 to 9 flowered at the base, becoming 1 flowered at the apex of the inflorescence. Bracteoles narrowly lanceolate acute, 5-15 mm long, villous at the base, apex usually glabrous and hard, slightly incurved, margins minutely toothed. Bracteoles somewhat naviculiform. Perianth 1-15 mm long, pale yellowish to cream in fresh state. Perianth limbs elliptic, villous to lanate. Perianth claws linear, becoming twisted on opening, villous to sericeous. Perianth tube glabrous, quadrangular. Style up to 14 mm long, filiform, terminated by an ellipsoidal pollen presenter. Ovary ellipsoid, 1 mm long, minutely sericeous. Hypogynous scales 1-1 x 5 mm long, linear subulate. Fruits cylindrical, 5-6 mm long, broadly emarginate and pedicellate at the base, glabrous, dark brown. Flowering takes place between July and December.