Sclerolaena diacantha

Prostrate herb with woody rootstock to weakly erect subshrub, to c. 20 cm high, branches densely short-woolly. Leaves linear, 10–20 mm long, moderately to densely covered with short appressed or semi-appressed hairs. Tube of fruiting perianth c. 2.5 mm long and wide or slightly narrower, densely tomentose, attached obliquely, attachment elliptic, deeply hollowed with thin radial septa within; limb not or barely exserted above spine-bases; spines 2, divergent, 1.5–5 mm long, pubescent below, one with a short blunt tubercle at its base, rarely a short third spine developed adjacent to the other. Fruits most of year.