Marasmodes oubinae S.Ortiz

Well-branched, multistemmed, twiggy shrublets, 0.3-0.6 m tall. Leaves alternate, regularly arranged along branches, spreading, lanceolate to linear or oblanceolate to obovate, 3-10(-12) x 0.5(-5.0) mm, simple or sometimes trifid, mucronulate, secondary basal lobes rudimentary or well developed; axillary fascicles conspicuous. Capitula solitary, on axillary shoots 0.5-4.0(-10) mm long. Involucre obconical, ca. 4-7 x 4-5 mm; bract margins and apices scarious, sessile glands at appendage base inconspicuous, stereome prominent, with upper portion 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, margin and apex very narrowly scarious; inner bracts oblong, ± 4 mm long, margins scarious, apex with a prominent scarious appendage, yellowish brown or reddish pink. Florets ca. 10 to 25; limb 5-lobed from just above midpoint; lobes erect to recurved. Pappus with adaxial scales ± length of corolla tube.