Stems decumbent, rooting at the nodes, glabrous or very minutely puberulous; branches erect, up to 8 cm long, terete, with smooth reddish-brown bark. Leaves opposite, shortly connate at the base, linear, obtuse, 3-3-5 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, fleshy, glabrous, densely woolly-villous within the basal sheath. Heads 25-30-flowered, solitary, terminal, broadly eampanulate, 1.5-2 cm long, nearly 2 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts 3-4-seriate; the outermost resembling the leaves and scaly outside, oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the apex, about 7 mm long, with very broad membranous margins, gradually increasing in length upwards; the innermost about 1.5 cm long and more or less of the same shape as the outer; all glabrous. Receptacle small and convex. Corolla-tube gradually widened upwards, 8 mm long, glabrous; lobes lanceolate, subacute, 2.5-3 mm long. Anthers slightly exserted. Achenes obovate, 3.5 mm long, long-pilose with rather stiff hairs from near the base. Pappus 1 cm long, reddish-brown when dry.
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Succulent shrub or dwarf shrub; stems decumbent, rooting at nodes. Leaves opposite, half stem-clasping at base, linear, obtuse, fleshy, glabrous, with dense, woolly tufts in axils. Flowerheads discoid, terminal, solitary, broadly bell-shaped; outer involucral bracts resembling leaves and scaly outside, oblong-lanceolate, rounded at apex, glabrous, margins broadly membranous; disc florets yellow. Cypselas long-haired; pappus reddish brown.
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