A much branched shrub about 60 cm high, rigid in the lower parts. Branchlets wiry, virgate, clothed with short grey tomentum and longer silky hairs. Leaves closely set, 1-2.5 cm long: lamina erect-spreading, lanceolate, attenuate, apiculate, rounded at base, somewhat incurved, with re volute margins covering half or more of the lower surface; upper surface minutely pustulate on the margins, at first pilose on the margins and up the middle, soon becoming glabrous: petiole about 1.5 mm long, stout, villous. Capitula 4-6 mm wide, depressed-globose, subtended by several modified leaves with expanded petioles, solitary or on leafless or almost leafless, short branchlets and clustered. Bracts about 2.5 mm long, linear, densely villous on the dorsal surface. Bracteoles shorter, acicular, similarly villous. Flowers stipitate, 2.5-3 mm long: calyx-tube about 0.75 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, glabrous: sepals scarcely 1 mm long, deltoid-ovate, flattened on the upper surface except for a keel at the apex, densely white-villous on the lower surface. Petals 0.5 mm long, inserted at the mouth of the tube: lamina rotundate, cucullate: claw about as long, oblong. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary obconic, glabrous. Stigma sessile, pulvinate.
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Closely leafy shrub to 60 cm, with wiry, tomentose branchlets. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 10–25 mm long, margins revolute. Flowers in globose capitula surrounded by modified leaves, sometimes clustered on small branchlets or solitary, shortly stipitate, whitish.
Closely leafy shrub to 60 cm, with wiry, tomentose branchlets. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 10-25 mm long, margins revolute. Flowers in globose capitula surrounded by modified leaves, sometimes clustered on small branchlets or solitary, shortly stipitate, whitish.
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