Robust, erect, 1 ft. or more high; branches ascending, straight, densely clothed with short, thick, glandular, plumose, dirty-yellow hairs; leaves adpressed, imbricate, narrow-linear-trigonous, glabrous, smooth, shining, the younger ciliolate, sulcate-keeled, leaden-olive-green (in the dried state), 2 lin. long; pedicels whitish-silky, very short; bracts adpressed, oblong, glabrous, very obtuse, ciliate, 1/2 the length of the sepals; sepals ovate, obtuse, glabrous, membrane-ciliate, a little shorter than the corolla; corolla urceolate-cylindrical, scarcely 1 lin. long, 1/2 lin. wide; segments ovate, very obtuse, 1/2 the length of the corolla; anthers subincluded, oblong, very obtuse at either end, saccate at the base, hirtillous, muticous; pore 1/2 the length of the cell; style subexserted, thick; stigma cyathiform-peltate, quadrangular; ovary glabrous.
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Low, erect, narrow shrub, up to 0.6 m tall, with stiff, branched hairs on young branches. Leaves in whorls of 3, 2 mm long. Flowers 3 per head, bract, bracteole and calyx ± large, cream-coloured, corolla cup-shaped, 2.5 mm long, cream-coloured, anthers just exserted, stigma large, cup-shaped.
Erect shrublet to 70 cm. Flowers small, calycine, cup-shaped, dirty cream-coloured to greenish, with exserted anthers.
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