Microglossa pyrifolia (Lam.) O. Kuntze

Climber, climbing shrub or small shrub to 6 m; branches finely ribbed, pubescent. Leaves petiolate; lamina 2-10 × 1.5-7 cm, ovate, rarely ovate-lanceolate, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent above, densely pubescent beneath; base obtusely cuneate; apex acuminate; margin entire or with a few coarse serrate teeth. Inflorescence 5-20 cm wide. Capitula 4-5 mm. Phyllaries narrowly ovate. Ray florets whitish; rays c.1 mm. Achenes 1 mm, narrowly obovoid.

Common at lower and middle altitudes in the E Highlands; scattered and rare elsewhere