adult leaves glabrous, 3–5-fid to the middle (rarely shortly trifid or entire!), the lobes linear, elongate, calloso-mucronate; corymb compound (sometimes panicled), many-headed, fastigiate; the pedicels bracteolate; heads ovoid, many-fl.; inv. scales glabrous, in many rows, narrow, acute or acuminate, rigid, entire; pappus of many swollen hairs. A densely leafy shrub, 2–3 feet high, mostly glabrous, the young parts sometimes clothed with woolly hairs, sometimes stellulate. Leaves 1–2 1/2 inches long, the lobes 1/2–1 inch or more long, not a line wide; rarely (in the Winterhoek specimens) varying from linear-lanceolate, entire, to narrow-cuneate, tridentate or shortly 3-lobed, 1–1 1/2 line wide. Corymb usually compound, of very many heads. Invol. scales variable, sometimes very narrow and sharp, sometimes broader and blunter.
