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Shrub, lignotuberous erect, 0.5-1.0 m high. Leaves oblong to oblanceolate, 80-140 x 25-45 mm, glabrous, glaucous, coriaceous, acute or obtuse, margins horny. Flower head cup-shaped, 40-60 mm in diam., solitary or clustered. Involucral bracts 5-or 6-seriate, carmine to cream-coloured, margins hairy; outer series ovate, rounded, 7-10 x 10-15 mm; inner series oblong, rounded, 30-40 x 7-15 mm. Flowers 40-45 mm long, tube 10 mm long, hairless at base, tips with white or pink hairs; style 45-60 mm long, white, curved; pollen presenter 8-10 mm long, thread-like. Flowering time Jan.-Mar.
Dwarf shrub, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves glabrous; blade oblong to narrowly obovate, 80-140 x 20-45 mm, leathery, bluish green. Flowers: head oblong or turbinate, 50-60 mm long; involucral bracts cream-coloured to carmine, inner bracts glabrous, curved inwards to enfold flowers; perianth 40 mm long, tube fulvously hairy within, glabrous at base, tips with tufts of white to pink hairs; Jan.-Mar.
Middle bracts 1.5–2.5 × 1.4–2.4 cm, obtuse to rounded, glabrous or with few hairs in the lower part, reddish-brown to red; inner bracts 4–5 × 0.5–1 cm, glabrous, cream to pink or brownish.
Leaves (5)7–12 × 1.5–3.5 cm, (2)3–5(6) times as long as broad, elliptic or narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, cuneate at the base, acute to rounded or emarginate at the apex, glabrous.
Perianth base glabrous; claw usually glabrous outside, usually densely hairy inside. Limb 10–15 mm long, glabrous or with a dense tuft of hairs at the apex when young.
Flowers 3.5–4.5 cm long, creamy-white, usually with a pink tip.
Suffrutex with several simple stems 0.3–1.0 m high.
Stems smooth, reddish-brown to grey, glabrous.
Heads 6–9 cm diameter.
Style glabrous.
