Marasmodes fasciculata S.Ortiz

Laxly branched shrublets, 0.3-0.6 m tall. Leaves alternate, regularly arranged along branches, spreading, narrowly lanceolate to linear or oblanceolate, 3-10 x 0.5 mm, simple or sometimes trifid, mucronulate, secondary basal lobes rudimentary or well developed; axillary fascicles present or absent. Capitula in clusters of 2 to 8, rarely some solitary, at branch tips. Involucre campanulate or sometimes narrowly obconical, 3.5-5.0 x 3-5 mm; bract margins and apices scarious, sessile glands at appendage base inconspicuous, stereome prominent; outer bracts ovate, 1.5-2.0 mm long, margin and apex broadly scarious; middle bracts narrowly ovate to oblong, 2.0-2.5 mm long, margin broadly scarious, apex with a scarious appendage; inner bracts oblong, 3-4 mm long, margins scarious, apex with a prominent scarious appendage, yellowish brown or sometimes reddish pink. Florets ca. 12 to 26; limb 5-lobed from just above midpoint; lobes recurved. Pappus with adaxial scales ± half to full length of corolla tube.