Branches shortly pubescent; bark greyish, smooth, becoming rougher with age; young branchlets short and twiggy. Leaves opposite, not connate at the base, linear, obtuse or subacute, 0.6-1.2 cm long, concave above, strongly keeled beneath, glabrous on both surfaces, with sharp rough cartilaginous teeth on the margin, those subtending the heads scarcely toothed. Heads about 40-flowered, terminal, solitary, sessile, obconic, about 3 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts 5-6-seriate, ovate-elliptic, oblong or oblong-linear, obtuse to acute, glabrous, with membranous and somewhat jagged margins, especially in the upper half. Receptacle concave, rather narrow. Corolla-tube widened above, slightly bent about the middle, 1.5 cm long; lobes lanceolate, obtuse or subobtuse, 2.5 mm long. Stamens inserted about the middle of the tube; filaments 4.5 mm long; anthers linear, acute, 5.5 mm long. Style terete, gradually thickened above, 1.5 cm long; branches subacute, 5 mm long, papillous on the upper third. Achenes oblong-obovoid, 6 mm long, with a tufted ring of hairs at the base about 4 mm long, otherwise glabrous or nearly so. Pappus 1.6 cm long, yellowish-brown.
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Shrub, 0.3-0.6 m high. Leaves opposite, not connate at base, linear, obtuse or subacute, keeled below, glabrous, margins sharply and roughly dentate. Capitula discoid, terminal, solitary, sessile; involucral bracts in many rows, ovate-elliptic, oblong or oblong-linear, obtuse to acute, glabrous, margins membranous and somewhat jagged. Florets yellow?. Flowering time not recorded for EC. Pappus of yellowish brown, barbellate bristles. Cypselae oblong-obovoid, with tufted ring of hairs at base, otherwise glabrous or nearly so.
Like P. staehelinoides but bracts with broad fringed margins.
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