Gymnodiscus linearifolia Dc.

Annual, rosettiform herb to 20 cm, glabrous at crown and in stem axils. Leaves basal, suberect-incurved, fusiform, 20-130 x 2-5 mm, mucronulate, succulent, green. Peduncles 2-6 mm diam., leaf-like cauline bracts linear, 3-15 x 2-3 mm., sessile, upper inflorescence bracts smaller, mucronulate 10-50 x 2-4 mm. Capitula in small cymose or sub-umbellate clusters aggregated into paniculate synflorescences; pedicels 5-45 mm long. Involucre campanulate to sub-globose, 4-10 mm diam.; involucral bracts 8 or 9, lanceolate to elliptic, 2.5-5.5 x 1.0-2.5 mm. Ray florets, 8 or 9, perianth tube 1.0-1.5 mm long, limb elliptic-ovate, 2.0-3.5 x 0.5-1.0 mm; ovary ellipsoid to narrowly oblong, glabrous; style included and branching just below mouth of tube. Disc florets 30, perianth ±1.5 mm long, lobes ovate, 1-2 x 0.5 mm; anthers 1.0-1.5 mm long; ovary narrowly ellipsoid, glabrous. Cypselas ellipsoid-obvoid, 1.0-1.5 x 0.5-0.8 mm, glabrous. Pappus 1-2 mm long.