Description:

• Shrublets, glabrous except for loose cobwebby tomentum in leaf axils and on adaxial sides of young leaves
• Leaves alternate, sessile, simple, linear, base half-clasping, subcarnose or coriaceous, mucronate
• Capitula discoid, terminal, solitary, ± 15-30-flowered; peduncle long
• Involucre ecalyculate, cupuliform to narrowly campanulate; involucral bracts 11-13, in 1 row, equal, free from base, linear-lanceolate
• Receptacle flat, epaleate
• Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corolla tubular, probably red with yellowish base, glabrous; lobes narrowly triangular, thickish, with involute margins and subcucullate tips
• Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate or minutely sagittate, with flat, acute, narrowly triangular appendage; endothecial cells with thickenings on longitudinal and transverse walls
• Style terete, basally swollen; style branches stout with continuous stigmatic areas, apically with oblong-triangular, obtuse-subacute, minutely papillate appendage
• Cypselas narrowly oblong, obscurely 5-angular, brown, eventually black, covered with small, whitish, mucilaginous, papilliform hairs
• Pappus bristles copious, in many rows, persistent, laxly and minutely serrulate, glossy white

Nomenclature:

• Lamprocephalus B.Nord.
  • Nordenstam: 323 (1975)
  • Bremer: 505 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

• Southern Africa: Monotypic: Lamprocephalus montanus B.Nord., endemic, Western Cape