Hymenolepis cynopus K.Bremer & Källersjö

Single stemmed shrub to 1.5 m, sparsely branched in upper half; branches densely leafy above, covered in dense, long, white stellate hairs, becoming glabrous below. Leaves, suberect, remaining ± equally sized and dense towards synflorescence, obovate-spatulate, 8-12 x 3-6 mm, apically (3)5 to 7(9)-dentate, teeth, rounded, 1-2 mm long, densely felted when young, glabrescent, margins apically revolute and subsucculent, coriaceous, light brown becoming grey. Capitula aggregated into congested, simple or compound corymbs, peduncles ± obscured; synflorescence 20-45 mm diam., peduncle bracts narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 2-6 mm long. Involucre narrowly obconical, spreading apically, 7-10 mm long, involucral bracts 6 to 8, subequal, narrowly lanceolate to linear, 7-8 x 0.4-1.0 mm, felted, without scarious margins, brownish. Florets 5. Pappus of basally united, lanceolate scales. Cypselas (immature) oblong, 1-3 x 0.3-0.5 mm, ribs glabrous.