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Inflorescences compact almost subglobose, 1.5–2 cm across (including corollas); primary inflorescence branches very short or up to 5 mm long; secondary and tertiary branches present but very reduced; pedicels up to 4 mm long, pubescent; bracts ± ovate, up to 6 mm long, pubescent outside, with dense silky hairs inside, caducous.
Calyx densely pubescent; tube 1–1.5 mm long; limb-tube c. 1.5 mm long, scarcely wider than the tube; lobes 1.5–3 × 0.4–0.75 mm, linear, just touching at base or sometimes separated by a small sinus.
Corolla tube 0.5–1 cm long, sparsely hairy outside, not bearded at the throat; lobes 4–6 × 1–1.25 mm, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely hairy outside especially near the margins.
Subshrub or rhizomatous suffrutex, up to 20 cm tall; stems mid-brown, covered by a dark indumentum.
Inflorescence-supporting branches abbreviated, up to 2 cm long, or virtually suppressed, leafless.
Fruit and seed not known.
