Marasmodes polycephala Dc.

Laxly branched shrublets, 0.2-0.4 m tall. Leaves alternate, regularly arranged along branches, erect to suberect, lanceolate, 3-7 x 0.5 mm, simple, mucronulate, secondary basal lobes absent; axillary fascicles absent. Capitula in clusters of 2 to 12, rarely some solitary, at branch tips. Involucre narrowly obconical to campanulate, 2-5 x 3-5 mm; bract margins and apices scarious, sessile glands at appendage base inconspicuous, stereome prominent; outer bracts ovate, 0.5-1.0 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, 2.5-3.5 mm long, margins scarious, apex with a prominent scarious appendage, reddish pink. Florets ca. 4 to 16; limb 5-lobed from midpoint; lobes erect to recurved. Pappus with adaxial scales ± half the length of corolla tube.