Small erect little or moderately branched shrub ca. 50 cm tall; branches densely leafy, becoming nude and marked with leaf-scars. Leaves alternate, sessile, imbricate, erecto-patent or eventually spreading, elliptic-obovate or broadly cuneate, 5-8 mm long, 2.5-6 mm wide, coriaceous, greyish or glaucous green, obscurely punctate, finely 8-10-veined with subparallel veins thickened distally, apically rounded-obtuse and 8-10-dentate with triangular-ovate mucronate and somewhat cucullate teeth covered by a rich light brown or honey-coloured foetid resin exudate; leaf-margins finely glandular with delicate stalked glands. Capitula solitary on lateral axillary peduncles 1-4 in subterminal position on flowering branches, radiate; peduncle suberect, simple, 10-25 mm long, nude, moderately densely pubescent with stalked glandular hairs. Involucre broadly campanulate-hemispherical, ca. 10 mm in diameter and 5 mm high; involucral bracts usually 8, uniseriate, narrowly elliptic-ovate, connate to the middle, 5 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, moderately densely glandular-pubescent, green, faintly veined; the free lobes triangular-ovate, 2.5-3 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, subacute. Receptacle convex, distinctly alveolate (honey-combed). Ray-florets 8-11; tube 0.8-1 mm long; lamina yellow, elliptic-oblong, 4-5 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, 4-5-veined. Disc-florets many (ca. 25-30), yellow. Corolla 3.5-4 mm long; tube 1-1.5 mm long, cylindrical; limb campanulate, 2.5 mm long; lobes triangular-ovate, 1 mm long, acute, distinctly mid-lined and with marginal veins. Anthers 1.5 mm long including deltoid-ovate apical appendage, ecaudate with obtuse base; filament collar very short. Style branches narrowly oblong, 0.7-0.8 mm long, apically convex with short lateral sweeping-hairs, inside with distinctly separated stigmatic areas. Cypsela narrowly elliptic-obovate, 2.8-3.5 mm long, 1.2-1.7 mm wide, bluntly 5-ribbed, brown, densely white-villous with short obtuse twin hairs, strongly mucilaginous when soaked. Pappus bristles copious, 1.5-2 mm long, flexuous, white, softly distinctly barbellate, caducous.
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Erect, moderately branched shrub, up to 0.5 m high; young stems leafy, older with leaf scars. Leaves erect to spreading, elliptic-obovate or broadly cuneate, 5-8 x 2.5-6.0 mm, 8-10-toothed with ± cucullate teeth covered by honey-coloured resin exudate. Peduncle axillary, suberect, simple, 10-25 mm long, with stalked glandular hairs. Capitula solitary; involucre campanulate-hemispherical, ± 10 mm in diam.; bracts 8, uniseriate, connate to middle. Receptacle convex, alveolate. Ray florets 8-11, yellow. Disc florets 25-30. Pappus of many bristles, 1.5-2.0 mm long, white, barbellate. Cypselae narrowly elliptic-obovate, 2.8-3.5 mm long, 8-10-ribbed, densely white-villous, mucilaginous when soaked.
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