Branchlets slender, pale, slightly ribbed, glabrous. Leaves sometimes in clusters or the lower ones opposite and the upper alternate, free from each other at the base, linear or subspathulate-linear, obtuse, keeled 0.5-1 cm long, up to 2 mm broad, thick and fleshy, minutely punctate. Heads solitary, terminal, sessile, acutely acuminate in bud, at length cylindric, 1.5-2 cm long, about 6 mm in diameter. Involucral bracts straw-coloured, about 6-seriate; the outermost passing gradually into the leaves, oblong-lanceolate, about 2 mm long; the innermost linear or oblong-linear, about 1.4 cm long; all chaffy and rounded at the apex or obtuse, with a very small mucro slightly below the actual apex, quite glabrous. Receptacle flat, about 2-5 mm in diameter, deeply honeycombed. Corolla-tube cylindric, ribbed towards the base, 7 mm long, glabrous; lobes ovate-lanceolate, subacute, 1-5 mm long. Achenes 4.5 mm long, densely villous with appressed yellow hairs. Pappus as long as the corolla, straw-coloured.-
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