Omphalolappula concava

Erect or spreading, to 35 cm high, rosetted, covered densely with simple more or less appressed, sometimes broad-based hairs. Leaves sessile or subsessile, narrow-obovate to oblong, 1–4 cm long, 3–6 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, margins flat. Inflorescences few-flowered; bracts about as long as pedicels; pedicels to c. 10 mm long. Sepals narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, 2–3 mm long; corolla 2.5–3.5 mm long, glabrous, blue, tube much longer than the oblong lobes, throat scales saccate; anthers c. 0.5 mm long, tapering to a point; style c. 0.5 mm long. Mericarps with 8–10 barbed spines. Flowers Aug.–Nov.