Marasmodes oligocephala Dc.

Stout, well-branched shrublets, 0.3-0.7 m tall. Leaves alternate, regularly arranged along branches, spreading to reflexed, narrowly lanceolate to linear or oblanceolate, 3-8 x 0.5-3.0 mm, simple or sometimes trifid, mucronulate, secondary basal lobes rudimentary or well developed; axillary fascicles present. Capitula mostly solitary, some in irregular clusters of 2(3), terminal or on axillary shoots 2-12 mm long. Involucre cylindrical-campanulate, 3-4 x 2-3 mm; bract margins and apices scarious, sessile glands at appendage base inconspicuous, stereome prominent; outer bracts ovate, 1.0-1.5 mm long, margin and apex broadly scarious; middle bracts narrowly ovate to oblong, 1.5-2.0 mm long, margin broadly scarious, apex with a scarious appendage; inner bracts oblong, 2.0-2.5 mm long, margins scarious, apex with a prominent scarious appendage, yellowish brown. Florets ca. 6 to 10; limb 5-lobed from just above midpoint; lobes recurved. Pappus with adaxial scales ± length of corolla tube.