Erect or ascending shrubs or shrublets, glabrous (except for leaf-axils), with usually few long branches and numerous lateral short branches and brachyblasts; young branchlets and brachyblasts leafy, older branches nude. Leaves closely set at the ends of branchlets and crowded on brachyblasts, erecto-patent-spreading, coriaceous or somewhat carnose, entire and narrowly linear-filiform or tripartite in the distal portion with often forking lateral lobes, sometimes some leaves bipartite or up to 7(-10)-lobed; leaf segments filiform-linear(-narrowly oblong), 0.4-1.5 mm wide, very variable in length (0.2-3 cm), apiculate or mucronate with finally firm, often white points; leaf-base dilated, half-clasping or nearly so, somewhat arachnose-woolly in the axil. Peduncles lateral in the upper leaf-axils of young branchlets and brachyblasts, erect-erecto-patent or ascending, slender to fairly stout, short or up to several times longer than the leaves, 0.2-16 cm long, 0.2-1 mm thick, terete, often somewhat striate or sulcate. Involucre hemispherical or somewhat cupshaped, 3-12 mm in diam. Involucral bracts uniseriate, 5-12, connate at the base only (seldom up to 1/3), ovate-lanceolate or (narrowly) oblong, faintly or distinctly veined, obtuse-acute, puberulous-tipped. Receptacle slightly-distinctly convex, alveolate. Ray-florets 5-11, yellow. Tube 0.5-2 mm long, cylindrical. Lamina 3-7 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, 4(-7)-veined. Style terete with swollen base; style branches 0.7-1.7 mm long, truncate-ovate. Disc-florets c. 10-50. Corolla 3-4.5 mm long, tubular below, campanulate above. Anthers 1.2-2 mm long incl. the ovate obtuse appendage. Style terete or flattened with swollen base on a short stylophore; style branches 0.2-1.1 mm long, with truncate or slightly convex tips. Pappus bristles numerous, white, ± erect, 1-2 mm long. Achenes densely villous or lanate, incl. indumentum 2-5 mm long, ± oblong or oblohg-obovate in outline; hairs 0.5-2.5 mm long, white or brown, mucilaginous when soaked (except ssp. minor).
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Twiggy shrub, up to 1 m tall. Leaves crowded at branch tips and on short-shoots, terete, linear or with 3-5 linear lobes, 2-30 mm long. Flowerheads solitary in upper axils on elongated peduncles 20-160 mm long, radiate, yellow; involucre hemispherical, 3-12 mm diam., bracts 5-12, connate at base only. Cypselas densely hairy or woolly.
Twiggy shrub to 1 m. Leaves at branch tips and on short shoots, terete, linear or with 3-5 linear lobes, 2-30 mm long. Flower heads radiate, solitary on long peduncles in upper axils, yellow.
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