A small shrub, branches grey, terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate or very rarely nearly opposite, oblanceolate, slightly mucronate, 1-2 cm long, 5-8 cm broad, flat, entire, coriaceous-fleshy, glabrous, 1-nerved. Heads solitary, terminal, pedunculate, turbinate when young and rather acute, tubular when open, 2-5 cm long. Involucral bracts gradually increasing in length upwards; the outermost lanceolate, about 4 mm long and 2 mm broad; the innermost linear or linear-lanceolate, 2 cm long; all very acutely acuminate, 1-nerved, thin, with membranous margins, and very shortly puberulous outside. Receptacle slightly convex, 4 mm in diameter, honeycombed. Corolla 1-3 mm long; lobes lanceolate, subacute, 2 mm long. Achenes 4 mm long, villous with long appressed hairs. Pappus 1.5 cm long, straw-coloured.
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