Syncarpha zeyheri

Syncarpha zeyheri, yet another plant commonly called everlasting, and previously scientifically Helipterum zeyheri, is a silvery-woolly shrublet, mostly single-stemmed, growing upright branches to 20 cm in height.

The simple, alternate leaves are soft, ascending up the stems. They sometimes or somewhat reduce in size higher up on the plant. The leaf-shape is ovate, the tips bluntly pointed, and narrowing to the base without a convincing petiole. The pale grey-green blades are hairy to felt-textured, in picture with dark red parts near the tip margins. Leaf size is about 5 cm long and 7 mm wide.

The small species distribution is in the far southwest of the Western Cape, from the Cape Peninsula to Hermanus.

The habitat is grassy and rocky fynbos flats and slopes at higher elevations. Although the plant is rare, its habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Marais, (Ed.), 2017; Bean and Johns, 2005; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).