Multistemmed, densely leafy shrublet, 0.75-1.0 m high. Stems few-branched; branches erect to spreading, sparsely to densely silvery tomentose to villous, sometimes with purplish tinge; fascicles present in leaf axils. Leaves alternate, spreading to erect, 7.0-15.0 x 0.5-1.0 mm, linear when undissected, mucronate, involute, entire to pinnatifid, narrowed into petiolelike base, without secondary basal lobes, sparsely to densely silvery villous on both surfaces, fleshy; basal swelling present, continuous with stem ribs; lobes 3, 4.0-15.0 x 0.5-1.5 mm, linear, mucronate. Capitula discoid, homogamous, terminal, few-to many-headed (10-50), simple to compound corymbs, pedunculate; peduncles 5.0-60.0 mm long, silvery tomentose. Involucre 4.0-6.0 x 3.0-4.0 mm, cyathiform to campanulate, sometimes tapering at the base; involucral bracts 3-seriate, loosely arranged, margins and apices scarious, membranous apices of bracts two and three 0.3-0.5 mm long, villous, brown margins absent, median resin canals present (resulting in a distinct dark red line in the centre of each bract); outer bracts lanceolate, 3.0 mm long, acuminate; middle bracts lanceolate, 3.6-3.9 mm long, acuminate; inner bracts lanceolate, 4.0-4.3 mm long, acuminate to rounded. Receptacle convex; paleae usually in 2 marginal series, linear to oblong, 4.3-4.6 mm long, rounded, rigid with scarious apices, scarious apices ±1.0 mm long. Disc florets ± 22, without resin canals; corolla 2.4-2.6 mm long, with only glandular trichomes, yellow; tube 1.3-1.4 mm long; limb campanulate, 0.8 mm long (excluding lobes); lobes spreading, 0.6-0.8 mm long, triangular. Anthers ± 3.1 mm long (including apical appendage); apical appendage oblong to lanceolate. Style ± 2.0 mm long (excluding branches); branches ± 0.5 mm long. Cypselas 1.6 x 0.4 mm, oblong to obovate, 10-to 12-ribbed, apical rim thickened, slightly dentate, glandular trichomes present, sparse, scattered, not mucilaginous when soaked, discontinuous resin canals in ribs rarely present. Flowering is from December to May.
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