Marasmodes macrocephala S.Ortiz

Well-branched, multistemmed, twiggy shrublets, 0.3-0.6 m tall. Leaves alternate, those on axillary flowering shoots opposite to subopposite, regularly arranged along branches, suberect to spreading, linear to oblanceolate, 10-18 x 0.5 mm, simple or rarely with 1 or 2 lateral lobes, mucronulate, secondary basal lobes rudimentary; axillary fascicles developed into flowering shoots. Capitula solitary, on axillary shoots 5-60 mm long, sometimes less than 3 mm long near the branch tips. Involucre campanulate to obconical, 5-7 x 5-7 mm; bract margins and apices scarious, sessile glands at appendage base inconspicuous, stereome prominent, conspicuously green-flanked; outer bracts ovate, 1.5-2.5 mm long, margin and apex very narrowly scarious; middle bracts narrowly ovate, 3.0-3.5 mm long, margins and apex very narrowly scarious; inner bracts oblong, 4.5-5.0 mm long, margins narrowly scarious, apex with a prominent scarious appendage, yellowish brown. Florets ca. 16 to 25; limb 5-lobed from midpoint; lobes recurved. Pappus with adaxial scales ± half length of corolla tube.