A much branched, wiry shrub, about 40 cm high. Branchlets slender, clothed with short subadpressed, grey pubescence. Leaves closely set, 5-8 mm long: lamina erect-spreading, linear, subacute, usually apiculate, subcordate at base, semiterete, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface wrinkled or smooth, sparsely covered with grey pubescence, becoming glabrous: petiole 0.5-0.75 mm long, stout. Capitula mostly solitary, 4-6 mm wide, broadly hemisphaeric, surrounded by several leaves and leafy bracts. Bracts of the inner flowers about 1.75 mm long, linear, clothed on the outer surface with long, ascending, white hairs. Bracteoles 2, acicular, villous. Flowers 1.75-2 mm long, on a short, villous stipe: calyx-tube about 0.5 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, glabrous: sepals scarcely 1 mm long, deltoid-ovate, acute, angular-convex on the apical half of the inner surface, with a dense covering of white, woolly hairs on the outer surface. Petals inserted near the mouth of the tube, scarcely 0.5 mm long: lamina rotundate or elliptic-rotundate, more or less cucullate: claw about half as long, oblong or cuneate. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary turbinate, glabrous. Stigma subsessile, with 3 short lobes. Fruit 5-6 mm long, obovate-rotundate, deeply furrowed longitudinally, red-brown, with a small calyx-base.
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Much-branched, wiry, dwarf shrub, ± 0.4 m high. Leaves needle-like, 5-8 mm long, linear, base subcordate, apex subacute, margins closely revolute, without tubercles and hairy when young, becoming smooth over entire surface; petioles ± 0.50-0.75 mm long. Inflorescence a widely hemispheric capitula, 4-6 mm wide. Flowers 1.75-2.00 mm long, densely white-tomentose. Petals: lamina widely elliptic, ± cucullate. Flowering time Sept., Oct., also Jan. Fruit 5-6 mm long, obovoid, red-brown, with small, persistent calyx base.
Like P. parviflora but leaves needle-like, 5-8 mm long, margins closely revolute, without tubercles and hairy when young, becoming smooth over entire surface.
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