Staavia brownii Dümmer

About 50 cm high, moderately branched, with pilose branchlets. Leaves closely set, mostly 0.7-1 cm long, erect-spreading, almost straight, lanceolate, subacute or truncate, keeled on the dorsal surface, flat or slightly furrowed on the ventral surface, sparsely ciliate, becoming glabrous. Stipules minute, subulate. Flower-heads about 6 mm wide, surrounded and shortly overtopped by an involucre of considerably widened oblanceolate whitish leaves usually 6-7 mm long. Bract spathulate, villous on both surfaces, shortly exceeding the flower. Bracteoles narrowly spathulate, villous, about as long as the flower. Calyx-tube narrowly obconic, ridged longitudinally, clothed with long caducous hairs, with a shallow cup-shaped upper part: calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate, densely villous on the dorsal surface, reaching the tips of the petals. Petals about 2.75 mm long, oblong lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous or pilose on the upper half of the dorsal surface, slightly concave on the ventral surface. Anthers slightly more than 0.5 mm long, ovate. Styles connate throughout, reaching the middle of the petals. Seeds with a cup-shaped aril.