Athanasia filiformis L.F.

Erect, moderately to densely branched shrub, 0.2-0.8 m high. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, entire, acute, glabrous or sparsely to densely appressed, stellate-pubescent. Capitula discoid, in dense compound corymbs, pedunculate; involucre narrowly urceolate; bracts ovate to oblong, imbricate, obtuse to acute, glabrous or dorsally hairy. Receptacle partly paleate, paleae few, linear, slender. Disc florets tubular below, campanulate above, with a basal ring of slender, long-stalked glands, and some scattered on tube, yellow. Flowering time Nov., Dec. Pappus absent. Cypselae cylindrical, 5-10-ribbed.