Pteronia uncinata

Pteronia uncinata, the strandgombos (beach glue-bush) in Afrikaans, is a member of the Asteraceae family with flowers that have only disc florets, i.e. lacking ray florets. The leafy, branched shrublet reaches heights from 30 cm to 90 cm.

The leaves are small, narrow and hairless, keeled below and hooked at the tips, growing in whorls of three.

The flowerheads involucral bracts are sticky. The florets protruding above the involucre are yellow, growing in clusters of thin cylindrical corollas.

The species distribution is in the Western Cape from Clanwilliam to the Cape Peninsula and Bredasdorp.

The habitat is coastal fynbos and scrub. The species is not considered threatened in habitat early in the twenty first century (Manning, 2007; JSTOR; http://redlist.sanbi.org).