Acaulescent, resprouting, evergreen herb, 30-100 mm tall (excluding inflorescence). Leaves in basal rosette, spreading, simple, present at anthesis; petioles 7-110 mm long, sparsely to densely lanate, often becoming glabrescent in mature leaves; lamina ovate to elliptic, 7-40 mm x 4-22 mm; base ± cordate; apex obtuse; margins sparsely crenate to dentate, terminating in a small tubercle; adaxial surface green, sparsely villose when young, becoming glabrous to glabrescent; abaxial surface grey-white or coppery, densely felty, often also coppery-lanate around venation. Synflorescences 120-350 mm long, with terminal primary umbel subtended by 1 or 2 slightly smaller secondary umbels; peduncles slender, remaining densely lanate in upper and lowermost portions, remainder soon becoming glabrescent; peduncular bracts ca. 7-11 mm, lanceolate to foliose. Umbels compound, 10-20 mm in diameter; involucral bracts 5 to 10, 3-7 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate; rays 3 to 12, 3-5 mm long at anthesis, glabrous or lanate, involucellar bracts 2 or 3, 3-5 mm long, spathulate, acuminate, glabrous or lanate to felty; raylets 5 to 7, ca. 2 mm long at anthesis, glabrous; umbellules with 1 to 5 bisexual flowers surrounded by 1 to 5 functionally male flowers. Flowers with 5 large, petaloid sepals, ca. 1.5 mm long, elliptic, apex acute, cream-coloured, veins 3, usually prominent; petals filiform, strongly inflexed, cream-coloured. Fruits round to ovate, base rounded to truncate, strongly dorsally compressed, 2-3 mm x 2-2.5 mm; mericarps homomorphic, glabrous; marginal ribs inconspicuous; lateral ribs broadly-winged; median rib inconspicuous.
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Tufted perennial, up to 0.3 m high. Leaves radical, long-petiolate, ovate to elliptic, white-or brown-felted beneath, margins sometimes revolute, crenate. Inflorescences: umbels each with a single, female or bisexual flower surrounded by a number of male flowers, rarely all flowers bisexual. Flowers in small, congested compound umbels on slender peduncles. Petals somewhat filiform, white. Stylopodium flattened. Flowering time Dec.-Mar. Fruit dorsally flattened, outline broadly ovate.
Tufted, evergreen perennial to 25 cm. Leaves in basal clusters, long-petiolate, lamina ovate to elliptic, 20-40 mm long, white-or brown-felted beneath, glabrous to glabrescent above, margins sometimes revolute, crenate, base cuneate to cordate. Flowers in small, congested compound umbels on slender peduncles, white. Fruit broadly ovate, laterally compressed.
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