[Verbesina succulenta Hook. & Arnott; Lipochaeta australis (Less.) A. Gray var. decurrens A. Gray; L. connata (Gaud.) DC var. decurrens (A. Gray) Hillebr.;littoralis Hillebr.; L. lanceolata Nutt.; L. robusta St. John; L. succulenta var. angustata Sherff; L. s. var. barclayi Sherff; L. s. var. decurrens (A. Gray) Sherff; L. variolosa H. Lev.]
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Suffruticose perennial herbs; stems de-cumbent, rooting along lower surface, oc-casionally erect or ascending, 5-15(-40) dm long. Leaves somewhat fleshy, appearing shrunken and wrinkled in dry material, linear to elliptic-ovate, 6—12.5(—16) cm long, (1—)2—4(—6.5) cm wide, glabrous to strigillose, margins entire to serrate, petioles 0.2-1 cm long, with winged margins. Heads in simple or compound cymes; outer involucral bracts occasionally purple near apex, ovate, 3.2-5 mm long, 1.5-3.8 mm wide, sparsely strigillose, apex acute; chaffy bracts occasionally purple near apex; ray florets 9-15 per head, rays ovate to oblong, (3.8-)4.5-6(-7) mm long, (1.3—)2.3-3.3 mm wide; disk florets 25-40(-50) per head, corollas 4-merous, 3.1-3.7 mm long; anthers 1.3-1.5 mm long; pappus of connate scales forming an uneven corona tipped with short deciduous awns. Achenes nearly smooth with a thick corky layer, ray achenes 2.3-2.7 mm long, 1.2-1.7 mm wide, with wings ca. 0.5 mm long, disk achenes 2.2-2.9 mm long, 1.1-1.4 mm wide, with wings ca. 0.6 mm long. [In = 52*.] Scattered along the coasts, usually in a narrow band within 30 m of the water, 0-100 m, on all of the main islands except Lana‘i; very rare on 0‘ahu.