Palafoxia arida B.L.Turner & M.I.Morris

Annuals, 10–200 cm. Stems scabrous to nearly glabrous, sometimes distally stipitate-glandular. Leaf blades lance-linear to linear, 20–120 × 2–55 mm. Involucres cylindric to narrowly turbinate. Phyllaries ± equal, 10–25 × 1–2.5 mm, ± scabrous, sometimes stipitate-glandular. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 9–40; corollas ± actinomorphic, 9–13 mm, throats ± cylindric, longer than lobes. Cypselae 10–16 mm; pappus scales of inner cypselae 8–12 mm. 2n = 24.