Dwarf twiggy ericoid shrublet, branches erect, spreading or prostrate, ±60-120(-300) mm long, branchlets white-woolly-felted, closely leafy. Leaves 2-5(-10) x 0.5-0.75 mm, scarcely diminishing upwards, spreading, later reflexed, linear, obtuse, half clasping, shortly decurrent, margins strongly revolute, both surfaces grey woolly-felted, glabrescent, or wholly glabrous. Heads homogamous, cylindric, 4-5 x 1 mm, in small glomerules clustered at the branch tips closely surrounded by leaves. Involucral bracts in ±6 series, outermost very short, webbed to the surrounding leaves, persistent, inner subequal, tips lanceolate, acute, milk-white or sometimes pink, slightly exceeding flowers, not radiating, soon caducous. Receptacle conical, honeycombed. Flowers (3-)5(-6). Achenes 0.75 mm, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases with minute patent cilia not cohering.
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Twiggy, ericoid shrublet to 20 cm. Leaves small, spreading or reflexed, linear, glabrescent or woolly, margins strongly revolute. Flower heads discoid, in small terminal glomerules nested in leaves, cylindric, white sometimes pink, ± 4 x 1 mm, florets ± 5, ovary papillate-hairy.
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