Diastella parilis Salisb.

A low, erect, rounded shrub, 50-70 cm in height, with a single main stem. Stems pubescent, 1-2 mm in diam. Leaves oblong-elliptic 1-3 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, slightly twisted at base, apex acute and entire or obtuse to truncate with 2-3 apical teeth; softly velutinous. Inflorescences sessile 1.5-2 cm in diam., depressed globose, solitary and terminal or axillary with 51-152 mmflorescences clustered towards the apex of a flowering shoot. Involucre prominent, 3 seriate. Involucral bracts broadly to very broadly ovate, 7-8 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, apices acute or blunt with a point; brown and papyraceous on drying, outer surface glabrous, margins ciliate. Involucral receptacle flat, 3 mm in diam. Floral bracts linear-filiform, densely sericeous. Perianth pink, 8-10 mm long, densely sericeous; tube 2 mm long, glabrous proximally, becoming sericeous distally; the abaxial perianth segment slightly longer than the remaining 3; limbs lanceolate-acute, glabrous at base but crinite at apex, abaxial limb sericeous and larger than the remaining 3. Style 10 mm long, straight, glabrous. Pollen presenter linear-acute, 1 mm long. Hypogynous scales 3 mm long, acuminate. Ovary ellipsoid, sericeous, 1 mm long. Flowering takes place over a six-month period, from July to January, during which time the pink inflorescences are produced.