Sclerolaena uniflora

Decumbent to erect or spreading, greyish sub-shrub, to c. 40 cm high, branches densely covered with white or rusty, short-woolly hairs. Leaves rather crowded, often curved upwards, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 6–13 mm long, densely covered with short-woolly to semi-appressed hairs. Tube of fruiting perianth 2–2.5 mm long and as wide or wider, densely tomentose, attached centrally at base or slightly obliquely, attachment circular, deeply hollowed, with thin radial septa within; limb not exserted above spine-bases; spines 2, virtually erect, 0.2–1 mm long, pubescent below, one with a short blunt tubercle at its base. Fruits mostly Oct.–Jun.