An erect, much branched shrub 0.5-1.5 m in height. Flowering stems erect, terete, 3.0 mm in diam., often covered with prominent leaf scars. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, entire, 1.5-2.5 cm long 3.5-6.0 mm wide; covered with a short, dense indumentum of fine crisped hairs, greyish to silvery; ascending imbricate, Inflorescences globose, sessile, 2.0 cm in diam., usually solitary. Involucral receptacle obconic truncate, 4.0 mm wide. Involucral bracts broadly lanceolate, acute-acuminate, 4.0 mm long, 2.0 mm wide; densely villous, cartilaginous, tightly imbricate. Bracteoles oblanceolate-cuspidate, 6.0-7.0 mm long, 1.0-2.0 mm wide, densely lanate; carmine coloured when fresh. Perianth 1.5 cm long, straight in bud, pale cream becoming pinkish. Perianth tube 3.0 mm long, puberulous distally, glabrous proximally. Perianth claws 1.0 cm long, thickly villous; pinkish carmine, inner surface creamy yellow. Perianth limbs elliptic 1.5 mm long, thickly villous, scarcely differentiated from claws, recurved on opening. Style 1.2-1.9 cm long, filiform, straight to very slightly arcuate, pink to carmine when fresh. Pollen presenter clavate to cylindric-obtuse, 1.0 mm long, yellow when fresh. Hypogynous scales filiform, 0.5-0.7 mm long, hyaline. Flowering takes place from August to January.
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Dwarf shrub, erect, much branched, 0.5-1.5 m high. Leaves crowded and overlapping, elliptic-lanceolate, 15-25 x 3-6 mm, densely hairy, silver, apex pointed with one glandular tooth. Inflorescence globose, 20 mm in diam., solitary. Involucral bracts lanceolate, cartilaginous. Perianth 15 mm long, cream-coloured but turning carmine with long hairs, tube 3 mm long; style 12-19 mm long, straight to slightly curving, pink or carmine; pollen presenter club-shaped to cylindrical, tip rounded, yellow. Flowering time Aug.-Jan.
Like L. calligerum but pollen presenter club-shaped.
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