A wiry, much branched shrub, usually 60-120 cm high. Branchlets clothed with grey tomentum with which is interspersed longer, silky hairs. Leaves crowded, 5-15 mm long: lamina erect spreading to decimate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, apiculate, cordate at base, with revolute margins covering about half, more or less, of the lower surface; upper surface conspicuously tubercled on the sides, the midrib and about the apex, or with tubercles sparsely to densely scattered over the entire upper surface, with caducous, grey hairs on the tubercled parts: petiole 0.5-1.75 mm long. Capitula solitary or rarely clustered, 5-10 mm wide, hemisphaeric, surrounded at base by modified leaves and foliaceous bracts of the outer flowers. Bracts of the inner flowers 2.5-3.5 mm long, linear-oblong, dorsally villous. Bracteoles 2, slightly shorter, linear, dorsally villous. Flowers 3-4 mm long, subsessile: calyx-tube 0.75 mm deep, cyathiform, entirely glabrous, with a disc at the base within: sepals 1-2 mm long, erect-spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acute; outer surface clothed with long, white hairs; inner surface convex, glabrous. Petals inserted near the mouth of the tube, 0.5-0.75 mm long: lamina rotundate, obovate, ovate or elliptic-ovate, rounded or subacute at apex, incurved-cucullate, often laterally compressed: claw slightly shorter to slightly longer, cuneate-linear or linear. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary turbinate, glabrous. Style wide and very short, with 3 small stigmatic lobes. Fruit about 5 mm long, obovate-rotundate, wrinkled, glabrous, blackish, with 3 longitudinal furrows.
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Closely leafy, much-branched shrub, up to 1.2 m high; branchlets with grey tomentum interspersed with silky hairs. Leaves 5-15 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, base cordate, rough, apex acute to apiculate, margins revolute, lower surface exposed, white-pubescent; petioles up to 1.75 mm long. Inflorescence a hemispheric capitula, 5-10 mm wide, surrounded by modified leaves and leafy bracts; solitary or with cyme-like arrangement (oldest capitulum centred) with lower branchlets up to 70 mm long. Flowers 3-4 mm long, white-velutinous, subsessile. Calyx: tube up to 0.75 mm deep. Petals: lamina incurved-cucullate. Flowering time Aug.? Fruit 5 mm long, obovoid, blackish with 3 longitudinal furrows.
Closely leafy shrub to 1.2 m. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 5-15 mm long, rough, margins revolute. Flowers in flattened, usually solitary capitula, surrounded by small leaves and leafy bracts, whitish, subsessile.
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