Rounded perennial to 60 cm high. Branches slender, closely woolly. Leaves slender, semiterete c. 10 mm long, woolly. Flowers connate in groups of 8–12 in dense woolly clusters; perianth narrowly cylindrical, the upper third divided into erect narrowly triangular lobes. Infructescence a persistent woody ball from which emerge the narrowly cylindrical upper portions of the perianths and between them irregularly-shaped flattened or spine-like emergences to 3 mm long, all covered with a thick floccose indumentum, in all c. 15 mm diam.
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