Branches angular, dark purple when dry, glabrous, branchlets sulcate, slender. Leaves opposite, free from each other at the base, linear, trigonous, with obtuse recurved tips, fleshy, glabrous. Heads terminal, solitary, sessile, about 12-flowered, 1.5 cm long, 1 cm in diameter, narrowly obconic when open. Involucral bracts 5-6-seriate; the outermost ovate, about 4 mm long, gradually increasing upwards; the innermost lanceolate, subobtuse, glabrous except the submem-branous minutely ciliate margins. Corolla-tube 9 mm long, ribbed in the lower part, gradually widened upwards, glabrous; lobes linear-lanceolate, subacute, 2.5 mm long. Anthers linear, with a lanceolate acute apex, 4 mm long. Achenes 3 mm long, oblong-obovoid densely villous. Pappus setae unequal, the longest 8 mm long, tawny.
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Twiggy shrublet to 25 cm. Leaves subterete, keeled, alternate, imbricate, crowded at branch tips. Flower heads discoid, solitary at branch tips, yellow, 15 x 10 mm; bracts keeled above, margins minutely ciliate.
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