About 2 m high, with slender minutely pubescent branchlets. Leaves mostly 1-1.25 mm long, closely set, appressed, sessile, lanceolate, obtuse, apiculate, rather acutely convex on the glabrous dorsal surface, concave and minutely pubescent on the ventral surface, with a tuft of caducous hairs at the apex. Flower-heads about 2-5 mm wide, solitary, terminal. Bracts accompanying the outer flowers foliaceous; the inner linear-oblong, ciliate, villous on the dorsal surface. Bracteoles linear-oblong, villous on the dorsal surface. Calyx-tube villous, with a shallow cup-shaped free upper part: calyx-lobes ovate-oblong, sparsely villous on the dorsal surface, ciliate, reaching to shortly above the middle of the petals. Petals 1-1.25 mm long, obovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, bicarinate on the lower half. Stamens reaching to the tips of the petals; anthers elliptic. Ovary 3/4 inferior, villous, with 2 uni-or biovulate chambers: styles free. Fruit dehiscing downwards, 1-or 2-seeded: seeds rotund, smooth.
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Shrub, 1.4-2.0 m high. Leaves imbricate, appressed, 0.9-1.8 mm long; lanceolate, usually glabrous. Inflorescences densely arranged along shoot systems; minute, 2-4 mm in diam., with ± 5 flowers. Bracts foliaceous or as bracteoles linear-oblong, villous on dorsal side. Calyx: tube villous, with a shallow cup-shaped free upper part. Petals 1.0-1.5 mm long. Stamens included. Ovary 3/4 inferior, villous. Flowering time May-Oct.
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