Erect shrub, to ca. 0.6 m. Branches ascending to erect, sympodial, densely hairy. Leaves alternate, closely imbricate, ascending, incurved to geniculate, narrowly oblong, 3.0-5.0 x 1.0 mm, simple, acute, margins entire; both surfaces densely canescent. Capitula discoid, homogamous, solitary, terminal; peduncles short, slender, 2.0-4.0 mm long. Involucre cyathiform, 4.0-9.0 x 3.0-6.0 mm; bracts 4-seriate, margins ciliate, median bracts glabrescent, yellowish brown, apically-dorsally fleshy with resin sacs; outer bracts narrowly ovate, 3.03.5 mm long, obtuse; median bracts ovate, 3.5-4.0 mm long, obtuse; inner bracts lanceolate, 4.0-4.5 mm long, acute. Receptacle flat, paleate; paleae lanceolate, serrate, acute, becoming shorter centrifugally. Florets ca. 25 to 45; corolla 1.5-2.5 mm long, yellow; tube ± length of limb, glandular with long-stalked glands aggregated at base; limb funnel shaped, 5-lobed; lobes triangular, spreading, with apical resin sacs. Anthers 3.5-4.0 mm long, including apical appendages, ecaudate; apical appendages narrowly ovate, acute, with resin sacs; endothecial tissue partly polarized. Style branches truncate, papillate apically-dorsally. Cypselas unknown.
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