Erect, branched from the base, 1 1/2–4 1/2 ft. high, more or less whitish-lanate throughout; branches virgate, subalate. Leaves linear or oval-linear, very acute, more or less narrowed to sessile (or lower quasi-petiolate) decurrent base, 1–3-nerved, subentire, 2–4 in. long by 1/10– 1/2 in. wide. Capitula campanulate-oblong, 5–6-flowered, 1/8 in. long by 1/16 in. thick, golden yellow, sessile, crowded many together, in dense branched terminal cymes 1 1/2–6 in. diameter. Scales of involucre imbricated, obtuse, glabrous. Receptacle foveolate, fimbrilliferous. hermaphrodite fl. 1–2; ♂ fl. 3–4. Achenes oblong, obtusely angled, minutely glandular-papillose.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Roth! Q. Dillon and Petit! Plowden!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Clarence Peak, 8500 ft. alt., Mann!Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountains, 7000–8000 ft. alt., Mann!
