Athanasia quinquedentata Thunb.

Moderately to much-branched shrub, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves alternate, variable in shape, rotund to obovate to oblong, margins 3-5-toothed, teeth mostly convex, rarely straight-edged, sometimes entire or occasionally apically 3-lobed, mostly glabrous or with few hairs, spreading to squarrose and recurved. Capitula discoid, in simple or slightly compound, dense or somewhat spreading corymbs, pedunculate; involucre oblong to campanulate, tapering at base; bracts imbricate, ovate to oblong, acute or obtuse. Receptacle paleate, paleae oblong, acute, glabrous. Disc florets tubular below, slightly campanulate above, basally with dense ring of stalked glands, yellow. Flowering time Dec. Pappus absent. Cypselae flattened and 2-winged, 10-ribbed.