Shortly caulescent, resprouting, evergreen suffrutices, 60-150 mm (excluding inflorescence). Stems short, woody, 3-5 mm in diameter. Leaves congested along upper part of the stems, spreading, simple, present at anthesis; petioles 5-15 (25) mm long, lanate; lamina obovate to oblanceolate; 20-70 mm x 10-35 mm; base cuneate, apex acute to obtuse, margins crenate, slightly undulate, teeth obtuse, terminating in an inconspicuous tubercle; adaxial surface grey-green, lanate; abaxial surface grey-white to rusty, densely felty. Synflorescences (250) 350-700 mm long, with terminal primary umbel subtended by 0 to 4 smaller secondary umbels; peduncles slender, slightly lanate in upper and lowermost portions, remainder glabrescent; peduncular bracts 5-20 mm, foliose to lanceolate, glabrescent. Umbels compound, (15) 25-45 mm in diameter, dense; involucral bracts lanceolate, 10 to 12, 4-8 mm long, green, venation parallel, adaxial surface glabrescent, abaxial surface glabrescent; rays 7 to 30, 5-15 mm long at anthesis, glabrous; involucellar bracts 2 to 3, 5-7 mm long; lanceolate, green, glabrescent; raylets 3 to 7, ca 2 mm long at anthesis, brown, glabrous; umbellules with 1 to 3 hermaphroditic flowers surrounded by 2 to 5 functionally male flowers. Flowers with 5 large, petaloid sepals, cream, veins 1; petals filiform, strongly inflexed, cream. Fruits ovate, base truncate, dorsally compressed, ca. 3.5 x 2.5 mm; mericarps homomorphic, glabrous; marginal ribs inconspicuous; lateral ribs narrowly-winged; median rib prominent, becoming winged in lower third.
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Tufted, evergreen perennial to 45 cm. Leaves in basal clusters, shortly petiolate, white-felted, more thinly above, lamina obovate-oblanceolate, 30-60 mm long, margins crenate, base cuneate. Flowers crowded in small, compound umbels on branched peduncles, white. Fruit broadly obovate, laterally compressed.
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