Oedera squarrosa involucres

The involucre of an Oedera squarrosa flowerhead is cylindrical, consisting of at least four rows of tightly cohering, imbricate bracts. The rounded bract tips in picture are brown, their blades here creamy yellow to pale green low down in the lower rows. Bract surfaces are sometimes greener and darker. The inner, longer bracts are glandular.

The elliptic ray floret blades are pointed and here angled up outside the busy confusion of disc floret lobes and protruding anthers and styles.

The imbricate leaves with thick margins attenuate to their conspicuously elongated tips that curve out or slightly down. The upper leaf surfaces in picture show the mottling of tiny papillae, the gland-dots normally seen there (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; Wikipedia; https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org).