Athanasia tomentosa Thunb.

Ascending to erect, moderately branched shrub, 1.0-2.5 m high; densely hairy, Leaves alternate, linear, oblong or narrowly obovate, entire or rarely 2-or 3-toothed at apex. Capitula discoid, many in compound corymbs, pedunculate; involucre narrowly campanulate to oblong, tapering at base; bracts imbricate, ovate to oblong, obtuse, hairy. Receptacle paleate, paleae acute or distinctly apiculate, often with apical tuft of hairs. Disc florets tubular, with scattered long-stalked glands, sometimes with some aggregated at base of tube, yellow. Flowering time Nov.-Feb. Pappus absent. Cypselae cylindric, 12-18-ribbed, ribs sometimes apically extended into minute teeth.