Troglophyton parvulum (Harv.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

Small annual herb c. 10-150 mm tall, stems simple or branched, more or less erect. Leaves mostly 3.15(-30) x 1-6(-12) mm, 1/3-1/2 the length petiolar, uppermost subsessile, blade oblanceolate to elliptic tapering at both ends, subacute to obtuse, mucronate. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, 2.5-3 x 1-2 mm, pedunculate to nearly sessile, few to many in corymbose clusters terminating the branchlets or occasionally subsolitary on diminutive plants. Involucral bracts in 3 series, pellucid, occasionally reddish above the stereome, tips very obtuse to subacute, opaque or subopaque, white, minutely radiating. Flowers 13-27, 9-23 ('female'), 3-8 ('bisexual'). Achenes 0.5 mm long, hairy. Pappus bristles with tip and shaft barbellate.