Divaricately branched shrub to 1 m high. Leaves with slender petiole 4–10 mm long; lamina flat, cordate-ovate, 1.5–4 cm long, rounded at apex, papery, sparsely stellate-hirsute on both sides. Flowerheads to 1.5 cm diam.; outer bracts broadly ovate, c. 8 mm long, obtuse, papery, sparsely stellate-hairy, green; inner bracts broadly ovate to narrowly oblong, slightly exceeding outer ones, reddish brown with white margins, glabrous abaxially. Petals ±equal to inner bracts, white, ciliate otherwise glabrous. Stamens: filaments 10–14 mm long with pale red hairs in lower half; anthers c. 1.5 mm long.
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