Garuleum schinzii O.Hoffm.

Viscid, aromatic, much branched subshrub from a woody stem, 0.2-1.0 m high. Stem 3-5 mm thick, glandular-hispid, ribbed. Leaves alternate, sessile, globose glands, lower leaves irregularly bipinnatipartite or almost tripinnatipartite with short linear segments, upper ones reduced, simply pinnatifid. Capitula radiate, pedunculate. Peduncles up to 90 mm long, mostly solitary, ribbed, shortly hirsute, bracteate, some hairs with glandular tips. Involucre hemispherical, up to 15 mm diameter when pressed. Involucral bracts in 2-series, imbricate, finely pubescent, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; outer ones 4.5-5.0 x 1.0 mm; inner ones 6.0-7.0 x 1.0 mm with coloured apex. Ray florets female, fertile, blue; corolla limb up to 15.0 x 1.5 mm, narrowly linear; corolla tube up to 4 mm long, glandular, cylindric. Style 4.5-5.0 mm long, branched, linear, style branches 2.2 mm long. Ovary up to 2.2 mm long, glabrous, obovate in outline. Disc florets functionally male, yellow, 5-lobed; lobes ovate, 0.2 mm long; corolla limb 4.0-4.2 mm long; corolla tube 2.5-3.0 mm long, glandular. Style 3.8-4.0 mm long, bifid bearing sweeping hairs all way to below division but lacking papillae, linear. Anthers minutely caudate, linear with ovate apical appendages. Ovary up to 2.0 mm long. Cypselae 4.0 mm long, glabrous, slightly curved, three-angled, obpyramidial, strongly rugose.

It is a tropical plant. It grows on limestone or calcareous soils.