Erect, moderately to densely branched, rounded shrub, up to 0.6 m tall, with a stout trunk up to 50 mm diam. Branches ascending-erect, glabrous, leafy, becoming nude and marked with leaf scars. Leaves alternate, spreading, sessile, entire, midribbed, narrowly oblong, 4-12 x 0.8-1.5 mm, glabrous, densely and distinctly glandular-punctate and foveolate, mucronulate; semi-terete in cross section. Capitula solitary, sessile, terminal, heterogamous, radiate. Involucre campanulate, 4-5 mm wide. Involucral bracts 5-or 6-seriate, 36-17, imbricate, firm and hard basally, scarious apically, midribbed, glabrous; outer ovate, inner gradually longer, narrowly elliptic and apically brown, innermost narrowly obovate or narrowly oblong with a spreading, brown apical limb, up to 10.3 x 1.7 mm, acute. Receptacle slightly convex, shortly squamose, epaleate. Ray florets female, fertile, 13-18; tube cylindrical, 2-3 mm long, with ± stalked glands; lamina spreading, narrowly obovate, 6-10 x 1.3-2.2 mm, yellow with a dorsal, brown stripe, 4-veined, apically minutely 3-lobed; style terete, bifid, 2.5-4.0 mm long; style branches erect-spreading, linear, 0.7-1.5 mm long, glabrous, stylopodium not distinct; cypselas almost terete or angular, narrowly elliptic, 1.8-2.6 x 0.5-0.7 mm, densely pilose; pappus crown-like, of ± connate scales, up to 0.6 mm long. Disc florets 38-42, female sterile; corolla 3.7-5.5 x 0.6-0.9 mm, divided into a lower cylindrical tube with scattered, ± stalked glands on the outside and upper narrowly cyathi-form, glabrous limb; corolla lobes 5, spreading, ovate-triangular, 0.3-0.7 mm long, dorsally gland-dotted; style terete, 2.5-5.3 mm long, shallowly cleft, style branches up to 0.3 mm long, apically rounded and papillate; stylopodium distinct; anthers linear, 1.4-2.2 mm long, with sterile, flat, ovate apical appendage and sterile, flat, subulate, entire tails, 0.2-0.4 mm long; cypselas almost terete, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, 1.5-2.7 x 0.3-0.6 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose, may be scat-tered with ± stalked glands; pappus crown-like, of ± connate scales, up to 0.6 mm long.
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