Perennial herb with erect, usually simple, stems up to 60 cm. tall, often less, terete, shortly pubescent, puberulous or glabrescent. Leaves sessile, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, those towards the middle of the stem ranging from 15 x 5 mm. to 24 x 11 mm., obtuse or subacute, rounded and clasping at the base, rather densely clothed with short or very short hairs, the pubescence shorter on the upper surface, furnished with inconspicuous translucent glandular dots, black submarginal glands and a few scattered black glands on the lower surface. Flowers few in a dense head. Bracts with black stalked glands on the margin, usually very dense towards the base, appearing to form a ring round the stem. Sepals ± equal, lanceolate, acute, with black stalked glands on the margin and black glandular dots and dashes on the surface. Petals ± 13 mm. long, yellow, often tinged red, beset with black glandular dots. Stamens ± 35, not arranged in definite groups. Styles 3, longer than the ovary. Capsule 3-valved. Fig. 1, p. 8.
