stems shrubby, di-tri-chotomons, much branched, closely imbricated with short leaves, sparingly cobwebby in the axils, otherwise quite glabrous; leaves trigono-subulate or subulate, rigid, very acute, erect or erecto-patent, more or less incurved or closely appressed; pedunc. elongate; invol. scales connate for about a third their length, lanceolate, acute; achenes (not quite ripe) ridged and furrowed, the ribs warted. A small, much branched, erect, rigid shrub; branches many times irregularly forked and closely imbricated with leaves throughout. Leaves 1 1/2–2 1/2 lines long, from broadish, clasping bases, sometimes trigono-subulate, with a very thick midrib, margined on each side by an evident lamina (as in Thunberg's and some of E. & Z.'s specimens); but oftener reduced to the terete, subulate midrib. The inflexion of the points varies greatly, as does also the degree of appressedness or the contrary. Pedunc. wiry, 6–8 inches long. Heads small. Invol. scales certainly connate, though to a rather less extent than in other species.—Nearly allied to G. munita, chiefly differing in foliage.