Spreading shrub to 1 m high. Leaves with petiole 1–3 mm long; lamina linear to narrowly oblong, 2–6 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, narrowing at base, recurved to revolute, obtuse, glabrous adaxially, white-stellate-woolly abaxially. Flowerheads 2–3 cm diam.; outer bracts ovate, 10–15 mm long, acuminate, with a close, dense, pale brown to rusty indumentum of small weak stellate hairs; inner bracts ovate-lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 15–20 mm long, orange, stellate-tomentose. Petals c. 10 mm long, red, almost glabrous. Stamens: filaments c. 3 cm long, well-exserted, orange to red, with long red simple and stellate hairs in basal half; anthers c. 2 mm long, red.
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