About 50 cm high, with slender sparsely villous branchlets. Leaves mostly 2.5-3.5 mm long, sessile, ascending, slightly incurved above the middle, lanceolate, subacute, keeled on the convex dorsal surface and on the flat ventral surface, with a tuft of hairs at the base of the ventral surface, at first tipped with hairs and minutely ciliate. Flower-heads terminal, 5-7 mm wide, ovoid or globose, surrounded at the base by normal leaves. Bract about 4 mm long, ovate-lanceolate in the upper half, tapering to the base, slightly keeled on both surfaces of the upper half, incurved, pubescent on the ventral surface. Bracteoles about 2-5 mm long, elliptic, obtuse, long-tapering to the base, rounded-convex on the dorsal surface, keeled on the ventral surface, pubescent on both surfaces of the upper half. Calyx-lobes 1-5 mm long, linear-oblong, acute, pubescent on the dorsal surface. Petals about 2-5 mm long, linear, obtuse, conspicuously keeled from shortly above the middle downwards. Anthers about 0-5 mm long, ovate-oblong. Ovary 2/3 inferior, villous on the upper part; ovules attached shortly above the middle of the dissepiment.
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Shrub to 0.5 m tall. Leaves lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 mm long, ascending slightly incurved, when young tipped with hairs and minutely ciliate. Flower heads ovoid or globose, 5-7 mm wide, petals 2.5 mm long.
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