Oedera multipunctata (Dc.) Anderb. & K.Bremer

A moderately branched, up to c. 1 m high shrub. Stems ascending-erect, tomentose, leafy, becoming glabrous and nude and marked with leaf-scars. Leaves alternate, spreading, ± flat, mid-ribbed, narrowly obovate, 5-24 mm long, 1-4 mm wide, as young laxly tomentose, becoming glabrous, distinctly glandular-punctate, acute-obtuse. Capitula 2-5 together in terminal cymes. Peduncles 3-15 mm long during flowering. Involucre narrowly cyathiform, 2.5-6 mm wide. Involucral bracts 25-35, subequal, outer ovate, inner gradually longer and narrowly oblong, innermost linear and straight, up to 13 mm long, up to 1.7 mm wide, innermost dorsally sparsely gland-dotted, acute. Receptacle flat-convex, paleate. Paleae canaliculate, subulate-linear or very narrowly spatulate, 8-12 mm long, apically 0.2-0.5 mm wide, dorsally gland-dotted, acute. Ray-florets 6-11. Tube cylindrical, 2.5-4 mm long, glandular. Lamina narrowly elliptic, 5-10 mm long, 1.3-2.5 mm wide, 4-veined. Style 5-7 mm long; style-branches 2.4-3.2 mm long. Achenes as in disc-florets. Disc-florets 8-25, perfect. Corolla 6-8.2 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide. Tube cylindrical, glandular mainly on upper half. Limb narrowly cyathiform; corolla lobes 0.5-0.8 mm long, dorsally ± gland-dotted. Style 5-8 mm long; style-branches 0.8-1.2 mm long, seldom dorsally sparsely pilose, apically penicillate and rounded-truncate; stylopodium distinct. Anthers 3.5 mm long; tails c. 1/3 of the length of the anther. Achenes angular with lateral ribs, linear, 4-7 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely glandular; pappus crownlike, of ± connate scales, up to 1.2 mm long.