Erect or decumbent annual herb, sometimes cushion forming, 2-40 cm high, basally branched, and often also in the distal part of shoots, rarely unbranched. Stems green or rarely reddish; patently hispid. Basal leaves (35-)49(-75) x (3-)6(-10) mm, cauline leaves (4-)8-22(-52) x 1-3(-8) mm, gradually smaller distally, narrowly obovate, entire, adaxially densely hispid. Capitula (10-)15-20 mm in diameter. Involucre narrowly urceolate, villous, becoming lignified with age, free parts of the phyllaries covering the entire involucre. Phyllaries 35-45(-50), flexible, reddish or green with reddish apices, outermost phyllaries setiform, c. 2-3 mm long, less than 0.5 mm broad (more or less formed by the midvein only), erecto-patent, densely villous, hairs white, gradually longer and more erect, towards centre; innermost phyllaries c. 6-9 x 1 mm, linear triangular, erecto-patent, hispid. Ray florets (7-)8(-9), c. 12 x 2 mm, longer than phyllaries, narrowly elliptic, 4-lobed, adaxially yellow, without darker basal spots, abaxially green, brown or rarely black, entirely or in stripes, corolla hairs more dense distally. Disc florets 20-30, yellow, peripheral florets hermaphroditic, central florets functionally male. Style more or less bifurcate (less so towards centre). Cypsela c. 4 mm long, asymmetrically pyriform, adaxially flattened, not ribbed, basally glabrous, ? distally villous, twin hairs twisted, scattered, small, globose glands. Pappus a minutely, fringed crown.
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Roughly hairy, sprawling annual, up to 100 mm tall, germinating in the old involucre. Leaves oblanceolate, harshly scabrid above, glabrous or white-felted beneath, margins revolute. Flowerheads clustered in corymbs of 3-5 at branch tips, radiate, 20-35 mm diam,, ray florets yellow to orange with darker reverse but without dark markings; disc florets dark; bracts drawn into slender, flexible points.
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