Shortly caulescent, resprouting, evergreen suffrutices, 60-450 mm (excluding inflorescence). Stems relatively short, woody, 3-5 mm in diameter. Leaves congested along upper part of stems, suberect, simple, present at anthesis; petioles 5-15 (25) mm long, lanate to glabrescent; lamina elliptic to narrowly elliptic; (15) 20-45 mm x 6-25 mm; base attenuate, apex acute, margins coarsely serrate, strongly revolute, teeth 5-11, acute, mucronate; adaxial surface green, glabrous to glabrescent; abaxial surface grey-white to rusty, densely felty. Synflorescences 90-300 mm long, with terminal primary umbel subtended by 0 to 1 (2) smaller secondary umbels; peduncles slender, slightly lanate in upper and lowermost portions, remainder glabrescent; peduncular bracts 4-12 mm, foliose to lanceolate or narrowly ovate, glabrescent. Umbels compound, 12-25 (35) mm in diameter, dense; involucral bracts lanceolate, 5 to 8, 4-8 mm long, green, venation parallel, adaxial surface glabrescent, abaxial surface glabrescent; rays 10 to 30, 3-8 mm long at anthesis, sparsely lanate to glabrescent; involucellar bracts 2 to 4, ca. 3-6 mm long; elliptic to lanceolate, green, glabrescent; raylets 4 to 7, ca 2 mm long at anthesis, brown, glabrous; umbellules with 1 to 2 hermaphroditic flowers surrounded by 3 to 5 functionally male flowers. Flowers with 5 large, petaloid sepals, cream, veins 3; petals filiform, strongly inflexed, cream. Fruits transversely ovate, base cordate, dorsally compressed, ca. 3.5 x 4.0 mm; mericarps homomorphic, glabrous; marginal ribs inconspicuous; lateral ribs winged; median rib prominent, becoming winged in lower third.
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Tufted, evergreen perennial to 45 cm. Leaves usually in basal clusters, shortly petiolate, lamina elliptic, 10-40 mm long, white-felted beneath, glabrous above, margins revolute, stiffly toothed, base attenuate to truncate. Flowers crowded in small, compound umbels on mostly unbranched peduncles, white. Fruit broadly obovate, laterally compressed.
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