Marasmodes undulata Compton

Well-branched, multistemmed, twiggy shrublets, 0.3-0.7 m tall. Leaves alternate, regularly arranged along branches, adpressed to erect, lanceolate, 2.5-5.0 x 0.5 mm, simple, mucronulate, secondary basal lobes absent; axillary fascicles absent or poorly developed. Capitula solitary, terminal or on axillary shoots 2-25 mm long. Involucre campanulate, 4-6 x 4-5 mm; bract margins and apices scarious, sessile glands at appendage base inconspicuous, stereome prominent; outer bracts ovate, 1.5-2.0 mm long, margin scarious, apex with a broadly ovate scarious appendage, undulate, ± spreading; middle bracts ovate, 2.5-3.5 mm long, margins broadly scarious, apex with a broadly to very broadly ovate scarious appendage; inner bracts oblong, 4-5 mm long, margins broadly scarious, apex with a broadly to very broadly ovate scarious appendage, yellowish brown to reddish pink. Florets ca. 18 to 30; limb 5-lobed from midpoint; lobes recurved. Pappus with adaxial scales ± half to 3/4 length of corolla tube.