Pentzia spinescens Less.

Dwarf shrub, up to 0.5 m high; divaricately branched, spinescent, young branches silvery-felted. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blade pinnately 5-lobed or apex 3-lobed, lobes shortly linear, green, thinly hairy or glabrescent. Heads discoid, globose, 8-10 mm in diameter, solitary on slender peduncles 10-50 mm long, becoming spinescent after fruiting. Involucral bracts narrowly ovate, obtuse, narrowly membranous, with dark margins. Receptacle epaleate. Flowers: disc florets only; corolla 5-lobed, yellow; Feb., May, Aug.-Nov. Fruit with cypsela oblong, 5-ribbed, glandular between ribs. Pappus an auriculately shaped scale, 1/2 as long as cypsela.