Erect, much-branched shrubs up to 0.6 m high. Old stems and branches dark brown, longitudinally grooved, displaying anomalous secondary growth, glabrous, rigid; young shoots red-brown, thin, straight, internodes relatively long, initially felty, glabrescent except for dense, white felt in leaf axils. Leaves decussate, oblong to linear-oblong, 2-4(-9) x 0.3-0.6 mm, entire, basally broadly amplexicaul, adaxially basally concave, slightly flattened towards apex, abaxially convex, semiterete, whole surface with cavities, sometimes with glands in cavities, shiny, glabrous except for felty, axillary buds, apex mucronate; leaves of dolichoblasts and brachyblasts of same size and shape, those of brachyblasts imbricate. Capitula heterogamous radiate, racemose or umbellate-racemose, small, 4.0 x 3.5 mm; peduncles 3-5(-12) mm long, glabrous to sparsely shortly pilose. Involucral bracts 4, 2 slightly keeled, 2 ovate, 2.5 x 2 mm, other 2 broadly ovate, 2.5 x 3.5 mm, with central part green to purple with broad membranous margin, abaxially glandular, apex slightly fringed. Paleae: those of ray florets connate to ± one third of their length, coriaceous, rigid, margins fringed, abaxially long-lanate, hairs septate, adaxially glabrous, shiny; those of disc florets oblong-linear, 2 x 0.5 mm, membranous, transparent, weakly keeled to flattened, margins fringed, abaxially long-lanate, adaxially smooth. Ray florets 2 or 3, female; corolla white, up to 6.5 mm long; lamina up to 3 mm long, broadly cuneate, 3-lobed, with or without glands. Style branches at most 1 mm long, tapering (acuminate), only apices exserted. Ovary (and cypsela) oblong-ovoid. Seed slightly flattened, obovoid, up to 3 x 1 mm. Disc florets 13-18, functionally male with sterile ovary, 3-4 mm long; corolla infundibuli-form, distal widened part red-purple, 5-lobed, lower part yellow. Stamens 5, ± as long as corolla tube or exserted only up to 0.5 mm. Style truncate. Receptacle after anthesis densely long-sericeous between involucral bracts and connate marginal paleae. Flowering time: (May to) June to October (to November).
More
Erect, much-branched shrub, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves decussate, oblong to linear-oblong, entire, shiny, glabrous except for felty, axillary buds. Capitula radiate, racemose or umbellate-racemose, shortly to distinctly pedunculate; involucral bracts 4, ovate to broadly ovate, central part green to purple with broad membranous margins. Receptacle paleate, those of ray florets connate, hairy on outside, those of disc florets free. Ray florets 2 or 3, white. Disc florets 13-18, infundibuliform, lower part yellow, upper part red-purple. Flowering time Aug. Pappus absent. Cypselae oblong-ovoid, slightly flattened.
Like E. brevifolius but leaves glabrescent, linear, slightly fleshy and punctate.
Home
