Staavia pinifolia Willd.

Usually about 20 cm high, much branched, compact, with sparsely villous or glabrous branchlets. Leaves mostly 6-7 mm long, closely set, erect-spreading, slightly incurved above the middle, linear or oblong-linear, truncate or obtuse, trigonous, rather sharply keeled on the dorsal surface, usually flat and slightly keeled on the ventral surface, glabrous. Stipules minute, subulate. Flower-heads about 6 mm wide, closely surrounded and shortly overtopped by widened whitish leaves. Bract and bracteoles slightly shorter than the flower, narrowly linear, with caducous hairs on the dorsal surface. Calyx-tube obconic, clothed with caducous hairs, adhering to the ovary throughout: calyx-lobes reaching to the upper half of the petals, subulate, villous on the dorsal surface, mostly with caducous hairs. Petals about 2.5 mm long, ovate or elliptic, obtuse, sparsely villous on the dorsal surface. Anthers about 0-75 mm long. Styles united throughout, reaching to the upper half of the petals. Fruit unknown.