Oedera multipunctata flowerhead involucres

The long, narrow and cylindrical involucre of an Oedera multipunctata flowerhead comprises several rows of brown-tipped bracts. Oedera flowerheads usually have three or four rows of bracts. At least five can be separated, therefore counted in picture. The bracts are imbricate, i.e. overlapping, so that the number of clear rows is sometimes a bit of an opinion.

The involucres are dull yellowish, paler than the ray florets, apart from their bluntly pointed to slightly rounded tips, here darkened to brown. The female ray florets of the three flowerheads in picture are withered or withering from the original yellow. The disc florets stand fairly tall, dark and withered, the fertile ones fruiting already, like the rays around them (Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org).