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

Heads peduncled, 1-1.8 cm in diam. (including the rays); peduncles 0.8-2.7 cm long, copiously albo-tomentose. Involucre scales bluntly keeled, with the apices often slightly reddish brown; outer scales 2.5-4 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, ovate, acuminate; the inner 5-7 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, elliptic-ovate, much acuminate; the innermost 7-9 mm long, 1 mm broad, linear to linear-lanceolate, membranous, acuminate. Ray florets 9-13; lamina oblong to oblong-elliptic, broad, truncate, broadly 3-toothed; tube 3.5 mm long, cylindric, becoming glandular hairy above. Ovary shortly pubescent, with retrose hairs; style 6 mm long; branches 2 mm long, obtuse. Corolla-tube of disc florets 6 mm long, cylindric for two-thirds of its length, then abruptly campanulate, in some flask-shaped at the lower third, glabrous except just below the campanulate portion; lobes 0.5 mm long, quite glabrous. Ovary shortly pubescent, with ascending hairs; style 6 mm long, 2-branched; branches 2 mm long, truncate and papillose, with the apices slightly enlarged. Pappus bristles persistent, sub-equalling the corolla-tube. Shrub up to 30 cm high and 46 cm in diam.; leaves 0.5 to 1.3 cm long, ascending) crowded, subacute with a distinct somewhat curved mucro, very densely glandular hairy with stalked glands on the upper surface, white-woolly below.