Woody shrub to 60 cm high, bisexual. Stems terete. Leaves fleshy, sessile, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 28–52 mm long, 2–5.5 mm wide, 9–14 times longer than broad, entire, acute, glabrous or with very few scattered hairs, not resinous; sessile glands absent. Capitula solitary, narrowly campanulate to cylindrical, 12–15 mm long; peduncles 2–27 mm long; outer involucral bracts glabrous, not resinous, with margins entire and ciliate; inner bracts linear, 10.5–12 mm long, 0.7–1.1 mm wide, laciniate at apex, glabrous. Disc florets 12–22; corolla tube cylindrical, 7.9–9.3 mm long, pink; lobes 4 (5), 0.5–0.6 mm long, glandular. Fertile achenes produced by all florets, narrowly ellipsoid, 1.3–1.5 mm long. Pappus bristles of marginal florets 25–40, in 2 or 3 whorls, 8.2–9.2 mm long.
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