Compilation
Brachylaena discolor

A shrub or tree to 10(12) m. tall, usually evergreen; branches brown to dark-purplish, lenticellate and narrowly sulcate, at first greyish tomentellous soon glabrescent, ± leafy throughout Leaves with petioles mostly 5–16 mm. long; lamina mostly 5–12 x 1.3–5 cm., larger in coppice growth, oblanceolate to obovate, rarely oblong-elliptic, rounded sometimes briefly acuminate at apex, ± narrowly cuneate and usually tapering to a long petiole, entire and faintly revolute, or repand-dentate to serrate-or coarsely-dentate in the apical part, sometimes spinescent-denticulate; upper surface thinly araneose when young, or glabrous, shiny dull-green with subprominent reticulate venation; lower surface greyish tomentellous with prominent veins; lateral veins forked near the margin. Capitula numerous in dense terminal panicles 4–40 cm. long, or in short raceme-like panicles in leaf axils. Involucres mostly narrowly obconic, somewhat cyathiform in male capitula. Phyllaries thinly coriaceous, acute, lanate on the margins otherwise glabrous; from c. 1 mm. long outside, the inner increasing to c. 4 mm. long in male capitula and to 6(9) mm. long in female capitula, becoming lanceolate or tapering-lorate; the outermost 5–11 series decreasing in size and extending onto upper part of the 1–10 mm. long capitulum stalk, the lower part of the capitulum stalk often with scattered small bracts or buds; bracts below the involucre lanate. Male flowers: corollas dull-yellow, 3–5 mm. long, lobes c. 1 mm. long and ± recurved; pappus sparse, uniseriate, setae 3–4 mm. long with seta barbs ± equalling the seta axis in width. Female flowers: corollas 3–6 mm. long, terete narrowing to the apex, lobes erect up to c. 0.5 mm. long; achenes pale-brownish to purplish, 3–4 mm. long, subcylindric-subfusiform, narrowly c. 8-ribbed, sparsely puberulous; pappus several-seriate, setae 4–5(7) mm. long, ± terete, barbellate.