A rigid, moderately branched shrub, about 60 cm high. Branchlets wiry, often virgate, tomentose and villous. Leaves closely set, 1-1.5 cm long: lamina erect-spreading, narrowly linear, shortly attentuate, rounded at base, semiterete, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface or almost so; upper surface minutely scabrid, villous, rarely becoming glabrous: petiole 1.5-2 mm long. Capitula about 1.2 cm wide, rotundate or elliptic, subtended by a few short leaves. Bracts about 6 mm long, linear, often foliaceous at the apex, covered on the outside and upper half within with rather coarse, long, grey hairs. Bracteoles about 6, up to 12, about 5 mm long, acicular, villous on the outer surface. Flowers sessile, 5 mm long, clothed with rather coarse, ascending, grey pubescence on the outer surface: calyx-tube 1.5 mm deep, cyathiform: sepals (often 6) 2.5 mm long, lanceolate, attenuate, obtusely convex from the apex almost to the base on the inner surface. Petals inserted on the upper half of the tube, scarcely 1 mm long, setaceous, incurved from about the middle. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary turbinate. Style 0.5 mm high, conical. Stigma very short, entire.
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Rigid, branched shrub, ± 600 mm tall, covered with ± shaggy hairs. Leaves closely set, narrowly linear, 10-15 mm long, semi-terete, minutely scabrid above, margins closely revolute, nearly covering lower surface. Flowers in spikes, sessile, 5 mm long, covered with ± coarse grey hairs.
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