Branchlets coarsely pubescent or pilose. Leaves 0.8-1 cm long, alternate, ascending and imbricate, or erect-spreading, linear or lanceolate-linear, obtuse, rounded at the base, usually slightly incurved, concave and glabrous above, strongly involute at the margin, rounded, ± pilose and with impressed glands beneath, or only pilose on the margin, sometimes minutely tuberculate-scabrid. Flowers in terminal clusters surrounded by many widened leaves with scarious margins. Peduncles 1.5-3 mm long, with long narrowly linear ciliate bracteoles on the upper half. Sepals 4.5 mm long, linear, subacute, slightly widened in the upper half, slightly concave above, ciliate, sparsely pilose beneath. Petals 5-9 mm long, glabrous; blade elliptic-oblong, obtuse, concave above, tapering into a slender claw 3 times as long. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 5.5 mm long, linear-oblong and pilose on the upper half, tapering to an acute reflexed apex, narrowly linear in the lower half. Ovary pubescent on the apex, with 3 carpels bearing small rounded processes. Style pubescent at the base.
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Resprouting shrublet to 30 cm. Flowers in dense, involucrate heads, white. Fruits 3-chambered.