A sparingly branched shrub, about 40 cm high, with rather rigid, ascending stems. Branchlets wiry, clothed with grey, silky hairs. Leaves closely set, 8-12 mm long: lamina ascending, erect-spreading or spreading, slightly incurved, linear, obtuse, rounded at base, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface, subterete; upper surface smooth, covered with short, soft, grey hairs, at length glabrous: petiole about 1.5 mm long. Inflorescence capituliform, rotundate, densely many-flowered, 1.5-2 cm wide, usually solitary. Bracts 1-1.2 cm long, acicular, white-plumose. Bracteoles 2, about half as long, silky-plumose. Flowers 4-4.5 mm long, stipitate: calyx-tube about 1.5 mm deep, urceolate, with a cup-shaped disc at the base, covered outside with long, ascending, caducous, silky, white hairs: sepals 2 mm long, erect-spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, covered outside by long, silky, white hairs; inner surface convex, glabrous. Petals inserted on the lower half of the tube, 0.5 mm long: lamina rotundate, cucullate: claw slightly shorter, linear. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary fusiform, clothed with long, caducous, silky hairs. Stigma small, sessile.
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Sparingly branched dwarf shrub, up to 0.95 m high; villous with grey, silky hairs. Leaves linear, 8-12 mm long, base rounded, apex obtuse, margins closely revolute; petioles ± 1.5 mm long. Inflorescence a rounded capitula, 15-20 mm wide, with long white-plumose bracts, twice as long as flowers. Flowers 4.0-4.5 mm long, silky, white-villous. Petals: lamina widely elliptic, cucullate. Flowering time Oct.-Feb.
Closely leafy, sparsely branched shrublet to 40 cm. Leaves linear, 8-12 mm long, smooth, margins closely revolute. Flowers in large, solitary, rounded capitula, with long, white-plumose bracts, white.
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