stem suffruticose or fruticose, erect, glabrous, pale; branches rodlike, sparingly leafy, ending in short pedunc., pubescent beneath the fl. head; leaves linear-oblong or spathulate, obtuse, entire, narrowed at base, thick, faintly ribbed, the young ones minutely softly ciliolate; inv. scales linear-acuminate, longer than the disc, with a dorsal line of short hairs, and wide, pale margins; rays orange-yellow; achenes …? Apparently a tallish, laxly branched, rigid shrub, with slender, rodlike flowering branches 12–15 inches long. Leaves 2–3 inches long, 3–5 lines wide, tapering much to the base, the upper gradually smaller. Heads large, erect. Rays numerous, an inch or more long, bright orange-yellow. I have not seen fruit.
