Stem (0.5–) 0.7–1.8 mm thick, white-pubescent, rarely glabrescent, yellow-green, rarely grey-green or brown-green. Inflorescence a single crowded, elongated head, 10–15-flowered or more; peduncle 10–30 (–100) mm, densely white-pubescent. Floral bracts whorled; bract triangular, acute, 0.5–1.5 mm long, pubescent, brown; bracteoles similar, smaller. Flowers globular, ovoid to obovoid, 1–2 mm long, dull white-pubescent (dried). Sepals triangular, c. 1 mm, yellow-brown. Petals ovate, 1–2 × 0.8–2 mm, densely pubescent with rigid dull-white antrorse hairs, less pubescent inside. Stamens 9, glabrous, white; outer stamens angular-lanceolate, 1–1.8 × c. 0.8 mm, usually ½ as wide as long. Staminodes narrowly pyramidal, c. 0.4 mm long, white, turning brown; glands ovoid, white turning brown. Ovary fusiform, c. 2 × 0.7 mm, glabrous. Fruit globular, c. 8 mm, glabrescent, sprinkled with few hairs, green with vertical blotches, drying brown, corky, or black-brown crowned with whitish petals.
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