Dicoma picta Druce

Perennial, dwarf shrub, 0.3-0.6 m high; often tomentose. Leaves alternate, occasionally subrosulate, sessile, usually discolorous. Capitula discoid; involucral bracts in many rows, pungent, glabrous. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Florets rose pink; tube of bisexual floret dilated above, deeply 5-lobed; neuter florets narrowly tubular, subbilabiate or subradiate. Anthers linear, sagittate at base, produced into long, retrorse-ciliate tails, apical appendage lanceolate. Style terete, slightly swollen at base, bifid at apex, apex obtuse with minute sweeping hairs. Flowering time Nov.-Feb. Pappus of various bristles in several rows; bristles scabrid to barbellate to plumose, apically pilose. Cypselae obovoid to obconical, ribbed, pilose.