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Asteriscus pinifolius Maire & Wilczek

Ighermia pinifolia (Maire & Wilczek) Wilkund

Subshrub up to 1.5 m in height, branched from the base, with glabrescent branches, glutinous especially in the younger parts. Leaves alternate, linear; the upper leaves shortly petiolate and with entire or subentire margin; the lower leaves subsessile and with teeth very spaced apart along the margin, all of them green, glabrous and glutinous. Capitula 2-3 cm in diameter, solitary, terminal, shortly pedunculate or sessile, surrounded by involucral leaves similar to the cauline leaves and much longer than the involucre. Involucre with 2-3 rows of imbricate bracts. Flowers yellow; outer flowers in ray florets and female, glandulose on the outside; the rest of the flowers tubular and hermaphrodite. Fruit a slightly obconical achene, arched, truncated at the apex, glabrous, with clear ribs.