A much-branched erect shrub, up to 1.5 m high; branches ± ascending, often short and with brachyblasts, leafy towards the ends, soon becoming nude, with grey cortex. Leaves closely set at the branch ends and crowded on brachyblasts, erecto-patent-spreading, (0.6-)1-3.5 cm long, linear-filiform, 3-7-lobed from or above the middle (mostly tripartite with forking lateral lobes), subterete-flattened, somewhat coriaceous, indistinctly mid-veined, glabrous, arachnose in the axils; leaf-segments 0.5-1 mm wide, up to c. 1 cm long, white-apiculate; leaf-base dilated, almost half-clasping. Peduncles lateral in the upper leaf-axils and from the brachyblasts, erect-ascending, 0.5-3 cm long, slender, 0.2-0.6 mm thick, striate, glabrous or laxly and shortly woolly. Involucre campanulate-cupshaped, 3-6 mm wide and 3-6 mm high (often enlarged in the fruiting stage), glabrous. Involucral bracts 5-9, connate to the middle or slightly more (sometimes splitting after anthesis); the free parts ovate, 1-3 mm long and wide, 1-3-many-nerved, obtuse or subacute, ciliate-tipped. Receptacle somewhat convex, alveolate. Ray-florets 5-9, yellow. Tube 1-1.7 mm long, cylindrical. Lamina narrowly elliptic-oblong or narrowly oblong, 3-5.5 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, 4-nerved. Style terete with swollen base; style branches flattened, c. 1 mm long, truncate-obtuse. Disc-florets c. 15-25. Corolla 3.5-4.3 mm long. Tube 1.3-1.7 mm long, narrowly cylindrical. Limb campanulate, 2-2.7 mm long; lobes ovate-narrowly triangular, c. 1 mm long. Anthers 1.5-2 mm long incl. the ovate obtuse appendage. Style terete or flattened with ± swollen base on a short (up to 0.2 mm long) stylophore; style branches 0.2-0.4 mm long, truncate, often not divergent. Pappus bristles numerous, 1-2 mm long, white, erect. Achenes (of the rays) copiously and densely villous-lanate with long, white or brown hairs, with indumentum 0.5-1 cm long and wide, without indumentum (narrowly) obovate, compressed, 3-4 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, brown, with 5 faint ribs or veins; hairs 3-7 mm long, thin, multicellular, not mucilaginous when soaked.
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Shrub, up to 1.5 m tall, with stiffly erect branches. Leaves crowded on short shoots, mostly trifid with forked lateral lobes, 6-35 mm long, lobes subterete. Flowerheads solitary in upper axils on peduncles 5-30 mm long, radiate, yellow; involucre campanulate, 3-6 mm diam., bracts 5-9, connate to ±1/2. Cypselas hairy.
Shrub to 1.5 m, with stiffly erect branches. Leaves crowded on short shoots, mostly trifid with forked lateral lobes, 6-35 mm long, lobes subterete. Flower heads radiate, solitary on short peduncles in leaf axils, yellow. Achenes conspicuously woolly.
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