Sprawling, multi-stemmed, divaricately branched shrublet to 250 mm tall; branches brittle, to 800 mm long, puberulous when young, glabrescent, 1-2 mm diam., chestnut brown but covered with flaking cuticle and appearing dull greyish, young branches laxly leafy with internodes ± 10 mm long, older branches leafless; short-shoots sparse and present only on youngest and older stems. Leaves spreading or slightly deflexed, twisted ± 270°-360°, primary leaves oblanceolate or lanceolate, 8-15 x (2-)3-7 mm, narrowed to short petiole-like base ± 1 mm long, leaves on short-shoots linear-oblanceolate, apically recurved-mucronulate, margins involute, strongly discolorous, abaxial surface glabrous, greyish green, 1-5 veined from base, veins prominently raised abaxially, adaxial surface white-felted, probably persistent for one season only. Capitula developing in uppermost 2 to 8 leaf axils, solitary in spike-like synflorescences or more commonly up to 4 on lateral branchlets in pseudopaniculate synflorescences, sessile, discoid, homogamous, (9)10 to 12-flowered; involucres cylindrical to narrowly cup-shaped, 6.5-7.0 x 2.0-2.5 mm, bracts ± 30, inner progressively longer, dry and firm-textured with narrow papery margins, apiculate, thinly woolly distally, outer 4 or 5 series pale straw-coloured with stereome flushed dark brown distally, ovate to lanceolate, 1.5-5.0 mm long, erect, inner 2 or 3 series oblong, 5-7 mm long, with dark wine-red ovate apical appendage 1.5-2.0 mm, apiculate, weakly spreading apically. Receptacle flat, 1 mm diam., honeycombed. Florets bisexual, corolla pale pink, cylindrical, ± 4.5 mm long, 5-lobed. Anthers feathery-tailed, ± 2 mm long. Ovary subterete, 5-ribbed with lateral ribs strongest, ± 1 mm long, annulus indistinct; style ± 4 mm long, branches ± 0.75 mm long, stigma marginal. Pappus bristles ± 20, connate at base, ± 4.5 mm long, barbed in basal quarter to third otherwise strongly plumose, with seta to 1 mm long, tufted apically. Cypselas unknown.
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