Diplolaena microcephala Bartl.

Rounded shrub to 1.5 m high. Leaves with petiole 2–4 mm long; lamina flat to conduplicate (when usually curved), narrowly oblong to elliptic or almost circular, 8–12 (–30) mm long, cuneate at base, rounded at apex, herbaceous, with sparse large unthickened rusty-stellate hairs adaxially, moderately hirsute with large unthickened rusty-stellate hairs abaxially. Flowerheads 7–12 mm diam.; outer bracts ovate to triangular, 6–10 mm long, red, pubescent with unthickened rusty hairs; inner bracts narrowly oblong to narrowly triangular, slightly exceeding outer, white with rusty-stellate broad central band. Petals c. 6 mm long, variable in colour, sparsely stellate-pubescent. Stamens: filaments 15–20 mm long, orange, stellate-pilose in lower half; anthers red, 1–1.5 mm long.

Often growing in gravelly sand along the banks of rivers, also somewhat inland on granite outcrops.