A moderately branched, erect shrub. Branchlets slender, virgate, ascending, villous, becoming glabrous. Leaves 7-12 mm long, erect-spreading: lamina lanceolate, acute, often apiculate, rounded at base, with revolute margins covering most of the lower surface or entirely covering it; upper surface obscurely scabrid or smooth except for a few minute pustules on the midrib and margins, at first villous on the lower parts of the midrib. Capitula solitary, 6-9 mm wide, hemisphaeric, many-flowered, subtended by several leaves or leafy bracts. Bracts about 2 mm long, linear-lanceolate, acute, with a dense covering on both sides of long, straight, silky, white hairs. Bracteoles 2, almost as long, linear, similarly villous. Flowers 3 mm long, subsessile: calyx-tube 0.5 mm deep, cyathiform, glabrous: sepals 1 mm long, ovate, acuminate, very convex on the upper half, clothed outside with long, rather coarse, white hairs. Petals inserted on the upper half of the tube, 0.5-0.75 mm long: lamina lanceolate, obtuse, concave on the inner face, sharply incurved; claw shorter, linear. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary turbinate, glabrous. Stigma subsessile.
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