A weak shrub; branches divaricate, leafy, slender, sulcate, reddish-brown, slightly puberulous towards the apex, glabrous below. Leaves alternate, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, 0.5-1.5 cm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, thick and coriaceous, glabrous, entire or rarely with a single lateral tooth on each margin. Heads solitary at the end of the shoots, subcampanulate, about l-5 cm long and as much in diameter. Involucral bracts 3-4-seriate; the outermost oblong-linear, subacute, 3 mm long; the innermost oblong-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 7 mm long, membranous, slightly puberulous outside. Receptacle convex, about 4.5 mm in diameter, honeycombed. Corolla 7 mm long, cylindric and puberulous below, slightly widened in the upper third; lobes 0.8 mm long, triangular, obtuse. Anthers 2 mm long, much exserted, subobtuse. Achenes slightly obliquely oblong, appressed-villous, 3.5 mm long. Pappus about 8 mm long, slightly exceeding the corolla, yellowish-white.
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Slender shrublet, up to 0.6 m tall. Leaves alternate, sessile, small, linear-oblanceolate, glabrous, margins entire or rarely few-toothed. Flowerheads discoid, solitary at branch tips, obconical; involucral bracts oblong-linear to-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, slightly hairy on outside; disc florets yellow. Cypselas shortly hairy; pappus yellowish white.
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