Shrub to 1.5 m high. Leaves with petiole c. 5 mm long; lamina flat, elliptic to broadly elliptic, mostly 15–25 mm long, cuneate at base, rounded at apex, papery, sparsely covered with very small unthickened stellate hairs adaxially, moderately covered with small unthickened stellate hairs abaxially. Flowerheads c. 15 mm diam.; outer bracts narrowly triangular, 10–14 mm long, pubescent with very small fawn-coloured stellate hairs; inner bracts narrowly triangular, slightly exceeding outer, tomentose. Petals c. 6 mm long, membranous, pale red, sparsely stellate-pubescent. Stamens: filaments c. 20 mm long, yellow to red, pilose in lower half; anthers 1–1.3 mm long, red.
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