Compilation
Sympieza brachyphylla

much branched; branchlets minutely puberulous; leaves 3-nate, imbricate, straight or incurved, 2/3–1 1/4 lin. long, usually ovate, sometimes linear-oblong, glabrous, sometimes with a minute denticulation on the acute edges, usually smooth and often shining; flower-heads 2–2 1/2 lin. in diam.; calyx of the lower flowers 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad, coriaceous; tube subquadrate, glabrous; lobes broadly deltoid, obtuse or subacute, usually distinctly ciliate, rarely nearly without cilia; corolla 1 1/3–1 2/3 lin. long, the exserted part not more than 1 1/4 times as long as the calyx, 1/2 to nearly 1 lin. broad at the tips of the lobes when flattened, and of nearly equal diameter nearly or quite down to the calyx, then narrowed to the base within the calyx; anthers 1/2 lin. long, linear-oblong; stigma very slightly thickened. null