Sclerolaena ventricosa

Compact, densely-branched subshrub to c. 30 cm high, branches woolly-pubescent. Leaves narrowly terete or semi-terete, c. 10 mm long, flattened at base, loosely silky-hairy, becoming glabrous with age. Fruiting perianth shortly woolly, readily detaching from stem; tube barrel-shaped or broadly cylindric, c. 3 mm long, weakly 6–10-ribbed, centrally attached at base, attachment circular or elliptic, flat or saddle-shaped; limb erect, to c. 1 mm long; spines 3(–4), divergent, the 2 lateral c. 3–6 mm long, the adaxial 1(–2) conspicuously shorter to c. 1 mm long, all sparsely pubescent for most of their length. Fruits Sep. (1 record).