Prostrate shrub to 0.5 m across, without lignotuber. Stems ±glabrous. Leaves: petiole to 1 mm long; lamina linear, 15-35 cm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, entire, obtuse but mucronate, loosely appressed-hirsute with upper surface becoming finely scabrid-verrucose; margins closely revolute. Inflorescence sessile, with many leaf-like, subulate, sparsely hirsute 'bracts' 3-8 cm long, passing into involucral bracts; involucral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, appressed-hirsute; innermost bracts 10-12 mm long; flowers 65-75 per head. Perianth 22-24 mm long, pale yellow-green, villous above base; claws filiform, glabrous; limb 4-4.5 mm long, smooth, reddish, glabrous except loose curled hairs that fall before anthesis. Pistil 22-24 mm long, cream, with hairs above ovary, otherwise glabrous; pollen presenter scarcely thickened, 1.7-2 mm long, finely ribbed, purple. Follicles orbicular with basal notch, 11 mm long, ?glabrous.
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