A much branched shrub about 40 cm high, with ascending, wiry branches. Branchlets slender, clothed with short, grey pubescence. Leaves closely set, 0.6-1 cm long: lamina erect-spreading, linear, subacute or obtuse, rounded at base, with closely re volute margins covering the lower surface; upper surface minutely tuberculate-scabrid, pubescent, becoming glabrous: petiole 1.5-2 mm long. Capitula solitary, 6-8 mm wide, hemisphaeric, subtended by several leaves with enlarged petioles. Bracts about 5 mm long, lanceolate, densely villous on the lower half of the outer surface, leaf-like above. Bracteoles 2, 1-2.5 mm long, linear, densely tomentose. Flowers 2.75-3.5 mm long, on a hirsute stipe: calyx-tube about 1 mm deep, cyathiform, glabrous on the lower half of the outer surface, tomentose on the upper: sepals 1.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, tomentose on the outer surface, glabrous on the inner, rounded-convex in the lower half, acutely convex in the upper. Petals inserted half way up the tube, 0.5 mm long: lamina elliptic-rotundate, incurved-cucullate: claw as long, linear-cuneate. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary obconic, glabrous. Stigma shortly 3-lobed, on a short, columnar style. Fruit 4-5 mm long, elliptic-rotundate, subtrigonous, smooth, with a small calyx-area.
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Much-branched shrub, up to 0.4 m high; branches wiry. Leaves 6-10 mm long, linear, apex subacute, base rounded, margins closely revolute, upper surface pubescent, becoming glabrous, minutely tuberculate-scabrid; petioles 1.5-2.0 mm long. Inflorescence a hemispheric capitula, 6-8 mm wide, subtended by leaves with enlarged petioles. Flowers 2.75-3.50 mm long, tomentose. Petals: lamina incurved cucullate. Flowering time Jan., July? Fruit 4-5 mm long, widely ellipsoid, subtrigonous; small, persistent calyx-area at apex.
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