An erect much-branched shrub, 0.2-1.5 m high, rather dense and rounded, strongly resiniferous and normally with rich surface resin, wholly glabrous or seldom sparsely arachnose in the upper leaf-axils. Young branches closely leafy, becoming nude and marked with scalelike leaf-scars. Leaves closely set, ± spreading (erecto-patent when young), linear, entire, 0.5-2 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, thick and coriaceous, but not markedly rugulose when dry, semiterete or flattened, obtuse and minutely apiculate with a whitish point, with a minutely muricate surface, bright green or glaucous, often with surface resin; adaxial side flat or slightly canaliculate with a narrow impressed midvein; abaxial side convex or somewhat keeled, midribbed; leaf-base dilated, almost half-clasping. Peduncles lateral in the leaf-axils, in a corymb-or shortly raceme-like arrangement at the branch ends, 0.5-2.5 cm long, slender, 0.2-0.5 mm thick, terete, faintly striate. Peduncle-base surrounded by two lateral reduced leaves; these subulate, 0.5-1.5 mm long. Involucre campanulate with a narrow, often somewhat cuneiform base, 3-7 mm wide and 3-6 mm high. Involucral bracts uniseriate, 5(-6), connate to 1/4-1/3 or sometimes almost to the middle, smooth or midveined, sometimes 3-many-veined, herbaceous or somewhat coriaceous with membranous margins, lanceolate-ovate, 3-7 mm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, acute or acuminate. Receptacle flat or somewhat convex, alveolate. Ray-florets 2-5, yellow. Tube 1-1.5 mm long, cylindrical. Lamina 2.5-5 mm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, oblong-elliptic-oblong, 4(-9)-veined, acute-truncate. Style terete; style branches 0.5-1 mm long. Disc-florets 8-20, often 13. Corolla 3.5-4 mm long. Tube 1-1.5 mm long, cylindrical. Limb narrowly campanulate, 2-3 mm long; lobes deltoid, 0.5-0.7 mm long. Anthers 1.3-1.8 mm long incl. the ovate-narrowly ovate subacute appendage. Style terete with swollen base; stylophore short; style branches 0.3-0.7 mm long with truncate-slightly convex tips. Pappus bristles numerous, 1-2 mm long, erect, white. Achenes oblong-obovate, 2-2.5 mm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, glabrous, light or yellowish brown, with 5(-8) prominent resiniferous ribs.
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Shrub, 0.2-1.5 m high; dense, rounded, erect, resiniferous, glabrous; stems closely leafy, later nude with leaf scars. Leaves alternate, sessile, closely set, ± spreading; blade linear, 5-20 x 1-2 mm, apex obtuse, minutely apiculate, base dilated, ± half-clasping, margins entire, smooth; thick, leathery. Heads radiate, solitary; peduncles 5-25 mm long, lateral in apical leaf axils, in a corymb or ± raceme. Involucral bracts uniseriate, 5 or 6, connate to 1/4-1/3, veins absent to many-veined, ecalyculate. Flowers: ray florets 2-5, female, fertile; disc florets 8-20, bisexual; all florets yellow; Feb.-Apr. Fruit with cypsela oblong-obovate, glabrous, brown, ribs 5-8. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, white.
Dense, rounded, erect shrub, 0.2-1.5 m high, resiniferous, glabrous, stems closely leafy, later nude with leaf scars. Leaves ± spreading, mostly linear, entire, 5-20 mm long, thick, leathery. Peduncles lateral in apical leaf axils, in a corymb or ± raceme, 5-25 mm long. Capitula 5-8 mm in diam.; involucre campanulate, basally narrow, 3-7 mm wide; bracts uniseriate, 5 or 6, connate to 1/4-1/3, veins absent to many-veined, lanceolate to ovate, 3-7 mm long. Receptacle flat or ± convex, alveolate. Ray florets 2-5, yellow. Disc florets 8-20. Flowering time Dec.-May. Pappus of many bristles, 1-2 mm long, erect, white. Cypselae oblong-obovate, 2.0-2.5 mm long, glabrous, brown, ribs 5-8.
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