Garuleum pinnatifidum Dc.

Aromatic, viscid, much branched shrub, 0.3-1.5 m tall. Stem thick, terete, leafy throughout, dividing into flower-bearing peduncles above. Leaves alternate, sessile, pinnate, minutely villous and ciliate ±50 mm long; pinnae oblong, irregularly serrate, somewhat obtuse, diminishing in size. Capitula radiate, pedunculate. Peduncle solitary. Involucre campanulate, up to 10 mm long. Involucral bracts in 2-series, more-or-less equal, thick, acute; outer 3.5-4.0 x 1 mm; inner 4.0-5.0 x 1 mm Ray florets ±18, female, fertile, strap-shaped, blue, mauve; corolla limb up to 9 x 3 mm, elliptic; corolla tube 2.8-3.0 mm long, glandular, cylindric. Style up to 3 mm long, linear, branched, style branches 2.2 mm long, sub-acute. Ovary up to 2.1 mm long, glabrous, obovate in outline. Disc florets functionally male, yellow, 5-lobed; lobes ovate, 0.2 mm long; corolla tube very hairy. Style 3.5-4.0 mm long, branched, style branches 0.2 mm long, linear with pollen sweeping hairs, which cover the style below the point of bifurcation for the same length as that of the branches. Anthers minutely caudate, linear with ovate apical appendages. Ovary up to 2 mm long. Cypselae 3.0-3.5 mm long, glabrous, 3-ribbed, narrowly obovate and the surface is rugose and papillate.