Sclerolaena limbata

Scarcely-branched erect shrub to 40 cm high, branches covered with greyish-white, cottony hairs. Leaves linear, semi-terete to clavate, 7–25 mm long, often curved at apex, densely covered with woolly hairs. Tube of fruiting perianth c. 3 mm long and as wide at apex, densely short-woolly; limb erect, c. 2 mm high, densely hairy; spines 2, divergent, ascending in the same (or very nearly the same) vertical plane, 8–12 mm long, hairy for much of their length; tubercule opposite radicle usually prominent.  Fruits Sep.–Oct. (3 records).