A dwarf, multiple-stemmed shrub, 0.3-1 m in height, with a woody subterranean rootstock. Stems erect, usually unbranched, 2-5 mm in diam., glabrous, green or flushed with pink or red. Leaves sessile to subsessile, linear, narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, occasionally slightly falcate, acute to obtuse, 6-12 cm long, 0.7-3 cm wide, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, obconic to subglobose, 3-6 cm in diam., opening to broadly cyathiform. Receptacle convex, 10-15 mm in diam. Involucral bracts 4-5 seriate; outer series broadly to very broadly ovate, acute to obtuse, 0.5-1 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, glabrous but occasionally sparsely sericeous at base; inner series oblong, concave and rounded at apex, 2.5-3 cm long, 0.5-1 cm wide, glabrous. Perianth straight, 2-4 cm long; tubes glabrous, 4-8 mm long; claws filiform to linear, outer surface glabrous, inner surface pubescent; limbs linear to very narrowly lanceolate, 0.6-2 cm long, glabrous to densely villous, indumentum white or ferruginous. Style 2-4 cm long, straight to slightly adaxially arcuate, laterally compressed. Pollen presenter linear-filiform, 3-10 mm long, scarcely differentiated from style. Ovary obconic, 3 mm long, covered with long, straight, tawny trichomes. Hypogynous scales narrowly ovate, acute, 1 mm long.
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Shrub, lignotuberous, multiple stems, erect, not branched, 0.3-1.0 m high. Leaves oblong to oblanceolate, 60-120 x 7-30 mm, acute or obtuse, glabrous. Flower head obconic to globose, 30-60 mm in diam. Involucral bracts 4-or 5-seriate, carmine, pink to cream-coloured, glabrous; outer series ovate, acute to obtuse, 5-10 x 10-15 mm; inner series oblong, rounded, 25-30 x 5-10 mm. Flowers 20-40 mm long, tube 4-8 mm long, tips with white or brown hairs; style 20-40 mm long, straight; pollen presenter 3-10 mm long, thread-like. Flowering time Nov., Dec.
Multistemmed shrublet, up to 1 m high. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong. Involucral bracts greenish cream through cream, flushed with pink to clear pink and even deep uniform carmine. Perianth with white or ferruginous indumentum.
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