stem weak, decumbent, several feet long; branches opposite, sulcate, scabrous; leaves opposite, obovate or oblong-spathulate, up to 1 1/2 in. long and 10 lin. wide, cuspidate or shortly acuminate, obtuse at the base, adpressed, pilose; petiole short; heads terminal, solitary or in pairs, globose, 6–8 lin. in diam., woolly; bracts hyaline, glabrous, shining; lateral flowers sterile, setaceous, uncinate, golden-yellow, base surrounded by wool; central flower hermaphrodite; perianth-segments lanceolate, equal, 3 lin. long, herbaceous with scarious margins, rather woolly outside; filaments filiform, about half as long as the sepals, hirsute at the base; anthers oblong, 2-celled; staminodes much wider than the filaments, truncate, denticulate, hirsute; style filiform, glabrous, longer than the ovary; stigma capitate; utricle glabrous; seed brownish. null