Zyrphelis outeniquae (Fourc.) Zinnecker

An erect shrub 60 cm high. Stems glabrous, densely leafy above, naked and sheathed with imbricated leaf scars below. Leaves alternate, linear or oblanceolate, acute, with subrevolute margins, scabrid dentate, broad-based, subdecurrent, at length reflexed, up to 5 cm long and 9 mm broad. Peduncles terminal, hairy, 1-headed, bracteated to the head with several linear, ciliate bracts. Heads large and handsome, radiate, about 40 mm across, white or a few pink. Involucral bracts about 24, 3-seriate, lanceolate, flat, green with 3 orange veins, silky-ciliolate, the inner 10-12 mm long and 2-3 mm broad, the outer shorter. Ray-flowers about 18, the lamina elliptical, about 12 mm long and 4 mm broad, entire or minutely 2-dentate. Achenes elliptical, compressed, margined, dark purple, minutely pubescent, about 5 mm long and 2 mm broad. Disk achenes fertile. Pappus uniseriate, plumose to the base.