Hymenolepis speciosa (Hutch.) Källersjö

Single stemmed shrub to 1.5 m, sparsely branched in upper half; branches densely leafy above, covered in dense short grey white stellate hairs, becoming glabrous below. Leaves suberect to spreading, remaining ± equally sized and dense towards synflorescence, elliptic, 25-60 x 10-30 mm, strongly pinnatisect with 7 to 14 lobes, lobes rounded, 3-25 x 1-3 mm, felted, margins entire, coriaceous to subsucculent, brownish-gold when young, becoming whitish-grey. Capitula aggregated into congested, compound corymbs, peduncles ± obscured; synflorescence 30-68 mm diam., peduncle bracts elliptic to oblong, 5-8 x 1.0-1.5 mm. Involucre narrowly obconical, spreading apically, 5-8 mm long, involucral bracts 6-8, unequal, elliptic to narrowly ovate, 3-5 mm long, felted, with scarious margins, brownish. Florets 5. Pappus of basally united, lanceolate scales. Cypselas (immature) oblong, 1.0-2.5 x 0.2-0.5 mm, ribs glabrous.