A dwarf, ramulose shrub, with slender branches clothed with short, dense, grey pubescence. Leaves closely set, 1.5-2.5 mm long: lamina somewhat retrorse or spreading, ovate, obtuse or tipped with an acute callus, cordate at base, subterete, with revolute margins almost covering the lower surface; upper surface tubercled, with a tuft of caducous, white hairs at the apex: petiole about 0.5 mm long. Capitula solitary 6-9 mm wide, many-flowered, hemisphaeric, with the axis often produced upwards, surrounded at base by scale-like expanded leaves. Bracts about 2-5 mm long, oblanceolate, acute, flattened, villous on both sides. Bracteoles absent. Flowers sessile, 2.75-3 mm long: calyx-tube 0.75 mm deep, campanulate, covered outside with long, caducous, erect-spreading hairs: sepals 1 mm long, narrowly ovate, acute, densely covered with long, silky hairs on the outside, glabrous on the inner surface. Petals absent (possibly sometimes present). Stamens inserted at the mouth of the tube. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary narrowly obconic, covered with long, caducous, silky, ascending hairs. Style 0.5 mm high, stout, trigonous, widened into a shortly 3-lobed stigma.
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Dwarf, sprawling shrub, ± 500 mm tall, branches slender, clothed with short, dense, grey hairs. Leaves stubby, closely set, ovate, 1.5-2.5 mm long, cordate at base, tubercled above, margins revolute, ± covering lower surface, apex tufted with caducous white hairs. Flowers in small hemispheric heads, sessile, 2.7-3 mm long, covered with long caducous hairs.
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