Decumbent to erect perennial with woody base and slender taproot, c. 15 cm high. Branches woolly. Leaves alternate, linear, 7–20 mm long, appressed-villous or silky. Flowers solitary, bisexual, densely silky-villous, often in congested leafy spikes. Fruiting perianth like an inverted academic hat (‘mortar-board’), horny, silky-villous; base flat and continuous with a narrow circular wing, c. 4 mm diam.; upper surface with a cup-shaped outgrowth (corona) to 2.5 mm high; radicular slit extending through corona to notched margin of wing.
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