A stocky, highly divaricate shrub, upright or sprawling, depending on environment, 0.5-2 m in height, with a single main trunk up to 100 mm in diam. Stems stout, woody, highly divaricate, 6-10 mm in diam., glabrous. Leaves ascending, linear-spathulate to narrowly or broadly oblanceolate, 35-60 mm long, 5-20 mm wide, apices rounded to obtuse; coriaceous, glabrous, occasionally glaucescent. Inflorescences globose in bud becoming spherical to ovoid on opening, the perianths and styles projecting beyond the involucral bracts. Involucral receptacle prominent, sharply conic-acute, 15-20 mm wide, 15-20 mm high. Involucral bracts 5-6 seriate, outer series tightly imbricate, ovate-oblong, 8-10 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, sparsely pilose to glabrescent, thin and papyraceous in texture, margins fimbriate; inner series narrowly oblong to linear-spathulate, widely splayed, 20-35 mm long, 3-10 mm wide, apices rounded; indumentum patchy, white-sericeous to ferruginously pilose, glabrous to glabrescent proximally. Perianth 35-45 mm long; tube 5-10 mm long, prominently ridged, glabrous proximally, becoming villous distally; claws straight, villous; limbs adaxially curved, linear, 10-12 mm long, tomentose, acuminate to shortly aristate; awns lanate. Anthers 3, subsessile; abaxial anther on free abaxial limb reduced to a fleshy staminode. Style 45-55 mm long, glabrous, ancipitous proximally, tapering, terete and markedly adaxially incurved distally. Pollen presenter linear, straight, swollen at junction with style, apex capitellate. Ovary obconic, 5 mm long, covered with 10 mm long, dark rusty-brown trichomes. Hypogynous scales ovate, 1 mm long.
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Shrub, much branched, single trunk, 0.5-2.0 m high. Leaves curved upwards, linear-spathulate to oblanceolate, 35-60 x 5-20 mm, rounded to obtuse, glaucous, coriaceous, glabrous. Flower head ovoid, 40-100 mm in diam., perianth projecting beyond involucral bracts. Involucral bracts 5-or 6-seriate, reddish brown, sparsely hairy; outer series imbricate, ovate-oblong, rounded, 8-10 x 6-8 mm; inner series widely spread, oblong to linear spathulate, rounded, 20-35 x 3-10 mm. Flowers 35-45 mm long, tube 5-10 mm long, glabrous at base, hairy at tips; style 45-55 mm long, curved, pink; pollen presenter 5-10 mm long, linear, swollen at base. Flowering time Sept.-Feb.
Erect or spreading shrub to 2 m. Leaves linear-oblanceolate. Flower heads ovoid, 40-100 mm diam., involucral bracts short, deep pink to brown, subglabrous, style 45-55 mm long.
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