Woody shrub or herb, to 2 m; stems erect to sprawling and spreading, few-branched; indument on young stems, leaf-veins and inflorescence-axes often yellowish-brown or whitish, densely velutinous with basally branched or stellate hairs, glabrescent with age. Petiole 2-10 mm long; blade mostly narrowly lanceolate or elliptical, sometimes ovate or orbicular, 1-5 x 0.5-2.5 cm, apex obtuse or acuminate, mucronate, cuneate at base. Inflorescence of axillary, sessile, heads; heads ovoid, 4-12 x 3-5 mm; bracts and bracteoles erect, white, hyaline, subequal, broadly ovate to elliptical, 1.4-2.3 mm, acuminate to aristate, pubescent with minutely retrorsely barbed hairs. Tepals erect, dimorphic, outer 3 tepals broader, rigid, ovate to elliptical, 2.6-5.0 mm long, (1-)3-veined, acuminate, mucronate, brown to green below, becoming white above, hispidulous at base with retrorsely barbed hairs, inner 2 tepals shorter, conduplicate, hyaline, sparsely to densely pubescent along fold; stamens 5, anthers oblong, pseudostaminodia exceeding stamens, apically fimbriate or lacerate; stigma capitate. Utricle globose or ovoid, 1.0-1.5 mm; seed reddish-brown, cochleate-orbicular or lenticular, 0.8-1.1 mm wide.
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Procumbent or decumbent sericeous perennials, the sparingly branched stems to 20 cm. long. Leaves densely pubescent with stellate hairs, rarely glabrate, elliptic to ovate, apically rounded and mucronate, basally rounded to cuneate, 1-5 cm. long, 0.5-2.5 cm. broad; petioles 2-10 nmm. long. Inflorescences of stramineous ovoid heads, 4-12 mm. long, 3-5 mm. broad, sessile in the axils. Flowers perfect; bracts and bracteoles subequal, ovate, acuminate to aristate, 1-3 mm. long; sepals 5, the outer 3 broader, 3-ribbed, basally indurate and hispidulous, 3-5 mm. long; stamens 5, united below into a tube, the pseudostaminodia lacerate and exceeding the filaments; ovary globose to obovoid; style 1, about twice as long as the capitate stigma. Fruit an indehiscent globose utricle 1-1.5 mm. long; seeds reddish brown, cochleate-orbicular, 0.8-1.1 mm. broad.
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