An erect branching shrub, 0.5-1.5 m high, glabrous in all parts. Younger branches closely leafy; older branches nude and marked with leaf-scars. Leaves erecto-patent-spreading, 1-3 cm long, 3-forked from the middle (sometimes below and sometimes above the middle), occasionally some entire or 2-forked, rarely a few leaves 4-5-partite; leaf-lobes linear, 0.5-1.5 cm long, 0.7-1.5 mm wide, flat or flattened, seldom subterete, subacute or sometimes almost obtuse, narrowly mid-veined esp. on the adaxial side. Peduncles terminal, solitary or a few together, erect, 1-5 cm long, 0.7-1 mm thick, distinctly striate. Involucre widely campanulate to expanded and almost flat, 1-2 cm in diam. Involucral bracts subbiseriate-subuniseriate, 8-13, basally connate (to 1/5-1/3); free lobes lanceolate-ovate, of various shape within the involucre, the outer narrower with glabrous margins, the inner broader with thinner puberulous margins, 3-6 mm long, 1-4 mm wide, thickish and coriaceous, indistinctly many-veined or without distinct veins; tips obtuse, puberulous. Receptacle convex-conical, alveolate. Ray-florets 10-15, yellow. Tube cylindrical, 1-3 mm long. Lamina narrowly oblong-linear, 12-22 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, 4-5-veined. Style terete; style branches 0.8-1.2 mm long. Disc-florets c. 25-75. Corolla 3.5-5 mm long. Tube cylindrical, 1-1.8 mm long. Limb narrowly campanulate, 2.5-3.2 mm long; lobes lanceolate, 1.2-1.6 mm long. Anthers 1.7-2 mm long incl. the narrowly ovate acute appendage. Style terete; style branches 0.5-1 mm long, with bluntly conical tips. Pappus 0. Achenes narrowly oblong-obovate to almost fusiform or narrowly pyriform, 3-4 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, dark brown, glabrous, with c. 10 distinct, light brown, longitudinal ribs. Flowering period: July-Dec. and March-May.
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Erect, branching shrub, 0.5-1.5 m high, young stems leafy, old stems nude with leaf scars. Leaves erect to spreading, 10-30 mm long, mostly 3-forked ± from middle, lobes linear, 5-15 mm long, ± flat. Peduncles terminal, 1-few together, erect. Capitula up to 25 mm in diam.; involucre widely campanulate to ± flat, 10-20 mm in diam.; bracts ± 1-or 2-seriate, 8-13, connate to 1/5-1/3, lanceolate to ovate, 3-6 mm long. Receptacle convex to conical, alveolate. Ray florets 10-15, yellow. Disc florets 25-75. Flowering time July-Dec., Mar.-May. Cypselae ± oblong-obovate, 3-4 mm long, glabrous, longitudinal ribs ± 10.
Like E. pinnatipartitus but leaves mostly 3-lobed and achenes with smooth ridges.
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