An erect branching shrub, 0.5-2(-3) m high, glabrous except for the sometimes arachnose-woolly upper leaf-axils. Branches leafy towards the tips, becoming nude lower down and knotted with leaf-scars, brown or dark greyish. Leaves erecto-patent-spreading and reflexed before withering, linear, flat, 1.5-9 cm long, 0.8-3 mm wide, tapering to ai acute or acuminate tip, completely entire, green, faintly mid-veined. Peduncles lateral and solitary in the upper leaf-axils, many on each branch in a ± corymb-like arrangement, suberect, 3-6 cm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, usually green, terete or slightly striate, sometimes with 2 small lateral leaves at the peduncle-base; these up to 1.5 mm long, subulate, but often more reduced or wholly lacking. Involucre campanulate, 4-6 mm high, 5-10 mm wide, brown or yellowish brown. Involucral bracts 8-12, uniseriate-biseriate, connate to the middle or less, often only at the base, variously shaped but usually widest at or above the middle, 4-6 mm long, 0.5-3 mm wide, herbaceous to ± coriaceous, with 3-8 light or dark, often indistinct nerves, sometimes gibbous towards the base, acute or subacute, puberulous-tipped; margins glabrous or somewhat ciliate. Receptacle somewhat convex, distinctly alveolate. Ray-florets 5-10, yellow. Tube 1-2 mm long, cylindrical. Lamina linear-elliptic-oblong, 5-12 mm long, 1.4-4 mm wide, 4-9-nerved. Style terete with ± swollen base; style branches 0.8-1 mm long, obtuse. Disc-florets c. 15-30. Corolla 3.3-5 mm long. Tube 1.3-2 mm long, cylindrical, basally ± inflated. Limb campanulate, 2-3 mm long; lobes narrowly ovate, subequal, 1-1.5 mm long, becoming reflexed. Anthers 1.5-2 mm long inch the ovate obtuse appendage. Style terete with swollen base; style branches 0.5-1 mm long, truncate or slightly convex. Pappus bristles few-moderately numerous, 0.5-1(-1.5) mm long, white. Achenes oblanceolate-narrowly obovate, sometimes pyriform, slightly flattened or often curved, 3-5 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, densely sericeous with rather long and thin, white-yellowish brown, shining (not mucilaginous) hairs, with 7-10 nerves or slender ribs under the indumentum.
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Erect shrub, 0.5-3.0 m high, mostly glabrous, stems leafy above, nude below with leaf scars. Leaves erect to spreading, later reflexed, 15-90 mm long. Peduncles lateral and solitary in upper leaf axils, many in a ± corymb, suberect, 30-60 mm long. Capitula 15 mm in diam.; involucre 4-6 mm long; bracts 8-12, uni-to biseriate, connate to middle, 3-8-veined, apex hairy. Receptacle ± convex, alveolate. Ray florets 5-10, yellow. Disc florets 15-30. Flowering time all year, mostly Sept.-May. Pappus of few-many bristles, white. Cypselae oblanceolate to obovate, 3-5 mm long, hairs long, white to yellow-brown, 7-10-nerved.
Shrub, 0.5-2.0(-3.0) m high. Leaves entire, linear, flat, 15-90 x 0.8-3.0 mm. Involucre campanulate, brown or yellowish brown, involucral bracts connate to the middle or less. Pappus short and often sparse, 0.5-1.0(-1.5) mm long. Achenes densely sericeous. Flowers yellow; July and October to December.
Shrub 2-3 m. Leaves linear, clustered at branch tips, sometimes woolly in axils, 15-90 mm long. Flower heads radiate, solitary on short peduncles clustered among leaves, yellow.
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