stem erect, slender, fruticose, diffusely much branched, the twigs glabrate; leaves sessile, ovato-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, with slightly reflexed margins, white-tomentose beneath, above dark-green and glossy, 3-nerved at base, and veiny; inv. cobwebbed, the scales lanceolate-acuminate; pappus with interposed scales; achenes pilose. A slender, much-branched, twiggy shrub, “used in making brooms and its leaves infused as tea”— (Dr. Sutherland). Leaves 1/2–1 inch long, not unlike those of Phylica paniculata, but larger, the midrib alone visible beneath through the toment., lateral veins obvious on the glossy, upper surface. Heads terminating small twigs; the invol. scales variable in shape, more or less taper-pointed. I find scales among the pappus bristles, and the achenes constantly clothed with erect, white hairs.
