Annual herb, bushy, 5–40 cm tall, aromatic-glandular; stems branching distally, glandular and lanate but glabrescent.. Leaves linear or narrowly spatulate, aromatic, sessile, 0.5–3.5 cm long, 0.2–0.6 cm wide, base cuneate, margins entire to dentate with few teeth, often revolute, apex obtuse, lanate but glabrescent, glandular, 1-nerved.. Capitula axillary, 1–2 mm long, in contracted racemes or glomerules, immersed in a mass of lanuginose hairs; stalks of individual capitula absent or up to 0.5 mm long; receptacle convex, naked; phyllaries 2-seriate, subequal, scarious, lanceolate, 1.2–2 mm long, margins fimbriate, acuminate.. Outer florets yellow, 30–40, tube filiform, 0.6–0.9 mm long, style 0.8–1.1 mm long, briefly bifid; inner florets yellow, 3–6, tube narrowly infundibuliform, 0.7–0.9 mm long, minutely and sparsely glandular, lobes 0.2–0.4 mm long; anthers ± 0.6 mm long with caudate tails and filiform distal appendages; style ± 0.8 mm long with very short clavate arms.. Achenes narrowly obovoid, 0.5–0.8 mm long, glandular-puberulous; pappus of outer florets a minute serrulate corona, of inner florets a minute corona of scales sometimes with an inner row of 4–7 barbellate bristles 0.6 mm long (rarely in EA material).. Fig. 82 (page 394).
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Annual herb, 100-300 mm tall. Leaves linear-lanceolate, margins entire or distantly serrate. Heads small, in dense glomerules, enveloped by long woolly hairs. Flowers yellow.
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