Podotheca angustifolia

Branches ascending to erect, 2–30 cm long, sometimes cottony, also with flat, septate eglandular hairs and stalked glandular hairs. Leaves linear, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 6–90 mm long, 1–7 mm wide, sometimes subsucculent. Capitula 12–45 mm long, 3–12 mm diam.; involucral bracts 14–28 per capitulum, ovate to lanceolate or c. linear, 7–28 mm long, outer ones usually with narrowly hyaline, long-ciliate margins, inner bracts hyaline except for midrib, glabrous or the margin long-ciliate. Florets 10–70 per capitulum; corolla-tube 14–21 mm long. Cypselas 2.2–4 mm long; pappus smooth at base, plumose in the upper half. Flowers Sep.–Dec.