Athanasia microcephala D.Dietr.

Little-branched, shrub, 0.75-1.50 m high; glabrous. Leaves alternate, sessile, ensiform to ellipsoid, entire, acute with a small mucronate tip, straight, curved or recurved, glabrous. Capitula discoid, many in compound, spreading corymbs, pedunculate; involucre narrowly oblong to ovate, somewhat tapering at base; bracts imbricate, narrowly ovate to oblong, obtuse or acute, glabrous, yellowish brown. Receptacle paleate, paleae lanceolate. Disc florets tubular, without glands, yellow. Flowering time Oct. Pappus absent. Cypselae cylindric, 10-ribbed, ribs sometimes apically extended into minute teeth.