A low, suberect to sprawling shrub 0.5-0.7 m in height; 1.0-1.5 m in diam. Stems suberect to trailing, 2,-4.0 mm in diam., sparsely pubescent, soon becoming glabrous, reddish tinted. Leaves loosely ascending, very rarely subsecund, linear to very narrowly cuneate, narrowing to the base, 2.5-5.0 cm long, 2.0-5.0 mm wide, puberulous at first, soon glabrous; apex usually entire, occasionally with 2-3 teeth; margins frequently involute. Inflorescences turbinate, 2.5-3.0 cm in diam., usually single, occasionally 2-3 nate; pedunculate, peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm long. Involucral receptacle flat, 0.7 cm in diam. Involucral bracts lanceolate acute-acuminate, 4-seriate, imbricate, cartilaginous, tomentose, 0.5-1.0 cm long, 2.0 mm wide. Bracteoles lanceolate acute-acuminate, 1.2-1.5 cm long, 2.0-2.5 mm wide, densely sericeous, margins ciliate. Perianth 2.0 cm long, pale lime green on opening becoming carmine tinted with age. Perianth tube 5.0-6.0 mm long, tubular obconical, glabrous. Perianth claws straight, filiform, sericeous, sharply recurved subterminally. Perianth limbs narrowly lanceolate linear, 2.0 mm long, sericeous. Style filiform, 3.0 cm long, tapering subterminally. Pollen presenter cylindric-obtuse, 1.0 mm long, scarcely differentiated from style. Hypogynous scales subulate, hyaline, 1.0 mm long. Flowering commences in July and continues until February.
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Sprawling shrub to 70 cm. Leaves narrowly oblong, with 1 (sometimes to 3) apical teeth, glabrescent. Flower heads obconic, 25-30 mm diam., pale lime-green to pink, style ± 30 mm long, pollen presenter slender.
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