Prostrate plants with long trailing stems to 2.0 m in length; with numerous stems arising from an underground, persistent rootstock. Flowering stems trailing, slender, 1.0-2.0 mm in diam., softly puberulous, usually unbranched. Leaves linear to oblong acute, rarely obtuse entire, sessile, 2.0-4.0 cm long, 2.0-6.0 mm wide, sparsely villous to glabrescent, dull olivaceous, patent to subsecund. Inflorescences globose, 2.0-2.5 cm in diam., pedunculate; peduncle 1.0-3.0 cm long; usually solitary, occasionally 2 or 3 nate. Involucral receptacle flat, 6.0 mm wide. Involucral bracts lanceolate acute, 5.0-7.0 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide, imbricate, cartilaginous, outer surface tomentose; apex crinite, cinereous. Bracteoles lanceolate acuminate 7.0 mm long, 2.0 mm wide, lanate, margins involute, clasping the perianth. Perianth 8.0-0.0 mm long, straight in bud, bright yellow at anthesis becoming deep orange with age. Perianth tube cylindric, 3.0 mm long, glabrous. Perianth claws sparsely villous, equally recurved subterminally. Perianth limbs narrowly lanceolate acute, scarcely differentiated from the claws; sparsely hispid. Style 1.2-1.5 cm long, straight, pale yellow at first, aging to orange. Pollen presenter cylindric obtuse, 1.0 mm long, stigmatic groove terminal. Hypogynous scales subulate 1.0 mm long.
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Resprouting, mat-forming shrublet to 4 m diam. Leaves secund, linear to oblong, subglabrous, with 1 apical tooth. Flower heads globose, 20-25 mm diam., scented, yellow fading orange, style 12-15 mm long, pollen presenter ellipsoid.
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