Pteronia incana solitary terminal flowerheads

The Pteronia incana flowerhead has three to five rows of involucral bracts. The bract tips are rounded, firmly clinging to the cylindrical shape they establish around the floret bases.

On close inspection their overlapping pattern is here not quite as regular as seen on some other species where stacked bracts form a protective cloak.

The reddish stem internodes, bare apart from white hairs on the young stem in picture, contrasts against the dark brown woody one from which it has grown (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).