A bush 30-45 cm high, branchlets more or less viscid, not hairy, ribbed, brown when dry. Leaves opposite, contiguous but scarcely connate at the base, linear, or subspathulate-linear, obtuse, 1-4 cm long, 1.5-3 mm broad, thick and fleshy, finely spotted when young, soon quite glabrous, convex below, concave and with a distinct midrib above. Heads several-flowered, terminal, solitary, sessile, more or less cylindric, 2.5-3 cm long, slightly contracted in the upper half, about 1 cm in diameter across the middle. Involucral bracts about 6-seriate; the outermost oblong-elliptic, rounded, about 4 mm long; the innermost broadly linear, all chaffy with submembranous jagged-ciliate margins, otherwise glabrous. Receptacle convex and deeply honeycombed, 5 mm in diameter. Corolla-tube cylindric, ribbed, nearly 1 cm long, glabrous; lobes linear-lanceolate, subacute, 4 mm long. Achenes 6-7 mm long, appressed-villous with silky white hairs. Pappus 1 cm long, very pale yellow.
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Dwarf shrub, 0.3-0.5 m tall. Leaves opposite, scarcely fused at base, linear or subspathulate-linear, obtuse, thick and fleshy, finely spotted when young, some quite glabrous. Flowerheads discoid, terminal, solitary, ± cylindrical; outer involucral bracts oblong-elliptic, rounded, with submembranous, jagged-ciliate margins, otherwise glabrous. Cypselas with silky white hairs; pappus pale yellow.
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