Oedera imbricata

Oedera imbricata is a sprawling shrublet that grows stiffly erect branches or reaches a rounded, compact shape at heights between 30 cm and 50 cm. The leaves are sessile and rigid, broadly lanceolate and often roundly recurving, densely covering the stems. Leaves of this species are quite variable, sometimes spreading and varying in width.

The yellow to orange "flowerheads within flowerheads" comprise large, false flowerheads: what looks like disc flowers in the centre being tiny flowerheads themselves. Only the overall flowerhead has ray florets, large oblong ones. The flowerhead measures up to 3,7 cm in diameter,

The plants grow in the Western and Eastern Cape on flats and slopes of the southerly mountain ranges, often in places that are arid in summer. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century (Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; www.keys.lucidcentral.org; http://redlist.sanbi.org).