A much branched shrub, about 60 cm high, with rather slender branches and slender, sparsely and minutely pubescent branchlets. Leaves mostly 7-12 mm long: lamina erect-spreading or spreading, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, subcordate at base, with revolute margins covering all or half of the lower surface; upper surface minutely tubercled, at first puberulous, pilose on the margins, at length glabrous: petiole scarcely 1 mm long. Capitula usually on short branchlets and clustered, 6-8 mm wide, hemisphaeric, few-flowered, involucred by scale-like leaves the greater part of which consists of a very much enlarged petiole. Bracts about 2.5 mm long, linear, clothed on the outer surface with long, white hairs. Bracteoles 2, slightly shorter, filiform, plumose-villous. Flowers stipitate, 3-3.75 mm long, much constricted between the tube and the ovary: calyx-tube cyathiform, 1 mm deep, the outer surface glabrous or villous on the upper parts: sepals 1 mm long, ovate, acuminate, angular-convex on the narrowed portion of the inner side, densely covered on the outer side with deciduous, long, white, woolly hairs reaching considerably beyond the tips. Petals inserted on the lower half of the tube, 0.75 mm long: lamina calyptriform: claw as long, linear. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary fusiform, glabrous. Style stout, together with the broad stigma scarcely 0.5 mm high. Fruit rotundate, smooth, blackish, shiny, with a small depressed area on the summit.
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