Oedera imbricata Lam.

Shrub up to 0.3-0.5 m, stiffly erect or compact rounded, densely leafy. Leaves very variable, 14-17 x 5-8 mm, curled or straight, erect, spreading or recurved; narrow or very wide, generally smooth; hard, somewhat pungent and densely overlapping, broadly lanceolate to ovate, glabrous; margins with stiff prickly hairs. Involucral bracts in several rows, outer green and leaf-like; inner almost translucent. Capitula in a secondary head, up to 40 mm diameter, with only the outer ones having conspicuous ray florets, florets orange or deep yellow. Ray florets female. Disc florets bisexual. Pappus of scales.