Suffruticose, much-branched, quite glabrous, the branches slender, terete incurved; leaves half-clasping, the uppermost often eared and toothed at base, filiform, with strongly revolute margins, acute, either quite entire or furnished with a few unequal, alternate, spreading, filiform, lateral lobes ; inf. loosely panicled, pedicels very long, subcorymbose, angular, sparsely scaly, curved ; inv. calycled, of 12-13 narrow scales ; disc-fl. 40-50, rays 6-8, revolute ; achenes hispidulous on the striae. Stems very rigid and wiry, ligneous at base, slender; the bark often purple or dark. Leaves 1 ½--2 inches long, not ½ line wide, appearing terete from the strongly revolute margins, perfectly simple and distantly and unequally pinnati-lobed intermixed on the same branch. Panicle widely spreading; pedicels 3-4 inches long. Rays creamy white. The leaves in Thunberg's specimen are quite entire; in other respects it agrees with Dr. Pappe's.
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