Oedera laevis Dc.

Rigid, erect shrub to 0.45 m. Stems silvery, densely leafy above, bare below with leaf scars. Leaves opposite, sessile, concave, minutely striate, apex mucronate, pungent, margins minutely toothed; leaves below capitulum to 15 x 4 mm, linear to narrowly elliptic. Capitula about 18, cylindrical, shortly pedunculate, 8 x 2 mm, crowded in terminal umbels. Involucral bracts in several series, outer 1.5-4 mm long, ovate, apex acute, margins membranous; inner 10-15 mm long. Receptacle paleate, palea to 10 mm long. Ray florets single, reduced, yellow, female; lamina oblong, entire or dentate. Disc florets 8-9, bisexual; tube 4 mm long, upper part bell-shaped, glabrous. Cypselas linear, angular, glabrous.