A low sprawling shrub with a single main stem, forming a tangled mat to 50 cm in height, 1-3 m in diam. Stems often trailing, 1-3 mm in diam., pubescent, much branched. Leaves ascending or secund to subsecund, oval, ovate, rounded or narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, 2.5-7.5 mm long, 1.5-6.5 mm wide, sparsely villous at first becoming glabrescent to glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, globose, 1-1.5 cm in diam. Involucral receptacle flat to slightly convex, 1-2 mm in diam. Involucre 2 seriate, the same length as the perianth. Involucral bracts 5-9 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, pink at base, greenish towards apex, outer surface sparsely sericeous, margins ciliate. Floral bracts 5-8 mm long, filiform, sericeous, pale pink to hyaline. Perianth 6-8 mm long, straight, claw and limbs filiform, sericeous; anthers sessile. Style straight, filiform, tapering terminally 8-10 mm long, sparsely sericeous on the lower half or less; stigmatic groove terminal. Ovary ovoid 1 mm long, sericeous.
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Sprawling, single stemmed shrublet to 0.5 x 3 m. Leaves elliptic. Flower heads solitary, 10-15 mm diam., pink.
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