An erect, slender, repeatedly dichotomously branching, somewhat divaricate shrublet; branchlets short, leafy at the tips, lower down nude and marked with leaf-scars; cortex grey. Leaves moderately closely set, suberect-erecto-patent, (linear-)filiform, entire, 5-15 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, ± terete, glabrous, obtuse or somewhat acute, mucronate with a firm whitish point; leaf-base slightly dilated, somewhat woolly in the axil, glabrescent. Peduncles terminal, erect, solitary, long and slender, (8-)15-23 cm long, mostly 0.4-0.8 mm thick, gradually tapering towards the apex (up to 1 mm thick at the base, sometimes only 0.2 mm thick below the involucre), terete, glabrous. Involucre hemispherical, 7-10 mm in diam., glabrous. Involucral bracts 13, uniseriate, connate to the middle, herbaceous-subcoriaceous, faintly 3-5-veined or without distinct veins; the free lobes ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, acute, with glabrous sub-membranous margins and ciliate tips. Receptacle convex, alveolate. Ray-florets 8-13, yellow. Tube 0.5-1 mm long, cylindrical. Lamina narrowly elliptic-oblong, 3-5 mm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, 4-veined. Style terete; style branches 0.8-1 mm long, obtuse-truncate. Disc-florets c. 50. Corolla c. 2.5 mm long, campanulate above, 5-lobed with 2 lobes short (c. 0.5 mm long, ovate) and 3 lobes much longer (c. 1.5 mm long, lanceolate); lobes eventually reflexed. Anthers 1.2-1.5 mm long incl. the ovate obtuse appendage. Style terete; style branches 0.7-1 mm long, apically truncate or slightly convex, penicillate. Pappus bristles numerous, c. 1 mm long, flexuous, white. Ovaries white-villous. Mature achenes not seen.
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