Vernonia kawoziensis F.G.Davies

Perennial herb with 1–several annual stems to 80 cm high from a creeping woody rhizome; young branches sparsely scabridulous-pilose.. Leaves obovate, 4–19 cm long, 1.5–4.5 cm wide, base long-attenuate, margins subentire to spiny-denticulate, apex acute, scabrid.. Inflorescence terminal, subspicate, the capitula sessile on the branch in the axil of a reduced leaf or in small Groups on short side-branches to 1 cm long; involucre obconic, 17–21 mm long; phyllaries 4–5-seriate, straw-coloured with purple tip, lanceolate, 3–19 mm long, acute-aristate, glabrous to hispid, pectinate-ciliate.. Florets 5–15 per capitulum; corolla bright bluish purple, 14–19 mm long including lobes of 4–5 mm long with a tiny tuft of hair at apex.. Achenes ellipsoid, 7–9 mm long, 8–10-ribbed, pubescent; pappus in several series, outer of short scale-like setae, inner of setae 10–13 mm long.