Erect or ascending shrubs or shrublets, 0.3-1 m high, little or moderately branching with usually long and straight erect branches, closely leafy in the upper parts, lower down defoliated and clothed with triangular scale-like dry leaf-bases, mostly glabrous, but sometimes laxly woolly on the young branches. Leaves closely pinnatipartite (`pectinate') with 3-8 pairs of lobes, 1-3 cm long, erecto-patent, glabrous; leaf-lobes opposite or sub-opposite, erecto-patent-spreading, 2-10(-15) mm long, 0.5-1(-1.5) mm wide, subterete-flattened, acutely mucronate or shortly acuminate, sometimes bristle-pointed, the middle lobes the longest; rachis faintly midveined esp. on the adaxial side; leaf-base somewhat dilated. Peduncles terminal, solitary, erect, 1-6 cm long or sometimes shorter, 0.5-0.9 mm thick, terete or faintly sulcate, glabrous but with an inconspicuous tuft of white wool at the base. Involucre widely cupshaped-flattish-campanulate, 1-1.5 cm in diam. Involucral bracts 11-19 (usually 13), uniseriate, connate to 1/3 or almost to the middle, lanceolate-narrowly ovate, 4-6(-7) mm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, acute-acuminate, 3(-5)-lined, often with a blue-purplish hue towards the apex, with minutely puberulous tips. Receptacle convex, at length conical, distinctly alveolate. Ray-florets 11-19, yellow. Tube cylindrical, short, 0.3-0.8 mm long. Lamina elliptic-oblong-narrowly oblong, 7-11 mm long, 2-3.5 mm wide. Style terete; style branches 0.3-0.5 mm long, obtuse-truncate. Disc-florets c. 60-150. Corolla 2.5-3 mm long. Tube cylindrical, 0.7-1 mm long. Limb campanulate, 1.8-2 mm long; lobes deltoid-narrowly ovate, 0.5-1 mm long, with subcucullate tips. Anthers 1-1.2 mm long incl. the ovate obtuse-subacute appendage. Style terete, sterile, tipped with a truncate-emarginate cone, or with short lobes up to 0.4 mm long. Pappus 0. Achenes oblong-obovate, 1.7-2.7 mm long, 0.8-1.3 mm wide, with an apical annulus, yellowish or light brown to blackish, distinctly and densely tuberculate, with c. 10 indistinct coarse ridges.
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Erect or ascending shrub, up to 1 m high, stems long and straight, leafy above, nude below with old leaf bases, mostly glabrous. Leaves 10-30 mm long, ± spreading, lobes ± opposite, erect to spreading, 2-15 mm long, ± flat, middle lobes longest. Peduncle terminal, solitary, erect. Capitula 20-25 mm in diam.; involucre ± cup-shaped to campanulate, 10-15 mm in diam.; bracts ± 13, uniseriate, connate to 1/3-1/2, ± lanceolate, 3-7 mm long, often ± blue apically. Receptacle convex to conical, alveolate. Ray florets 10-19, yellow. Disc florets 60-150. Flowering time ± all year. Cypselae oblong-obovate, 1.7-2.7 mm long, apical annulus, ± 10 coarse ridges.
Densely leafy shrub to 90 cm, sometimes thinly woolly on young parts. Leaves pinnatisect, 10-30 mm long, lobes oblong to terete. Flower heads radiate, solitary, on short peduncles, yellow; pappus absent. Achenes with 10 warty ridges.
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