Arrowsmithia glandulosa (N.E.Br.) N.G.Bergh

Heads sessile or sub-sessile, surrounded by the upper leaves, 1.5-2 cm in diam. (including the rays). Involucre scales edged with brown round apices, sometimes bluntly keeled; outer scales 3-4 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, oblong-elliptic, mucronate; the inner 5-8 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, obovate-oblong, mucronate; the innermost 1-1.2 cm long, 1.5 mm broad, linear, membraneous, acute. Receptacle 2-3 mm in diam., honeycombed, with the margins of the cells flmbrillate. Ray florets 20-24; lamina oblong-elliptic, minutely trifid, sometimes bifid; tube terete, widening above, entirely glabrous. Ovary villous, with the bristles rigid, ascending; style 4.5 mm long, ventricose at the base, arising from a flattened disc; branches 1 mm long. Corolla of disc florets 5.5 mm long, cylindric for two-thirds of its length, then gradually broader, entirely glabrous; lobes 0.5 mm long, with a few stalked glands near the apices. Ovary densely villous; bristles rigid, ascending; style 5 mm long, 2-branched, ventricose at the base, arising from a flattened disc; branches 1 mm long truncate, papillose at the apex. Pappus bristles persistent, sub-equalling. the corolla tube, tufted at or near the apices.