A small much-branched shrub 1-1 1/2 ft, high; branchlets terete, rather densely setose-pilose. Leaves opposite, almost free from each other at the base, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 0.7-1.4 cm long, up to 5 mm broad, coriaceous, flat, distinctly 1-nerved, prominently setose-ciliate or pilose on the margin and often on the back of the midrib. Heads 15-25-flowered, solitary, sessile, terminal, cylindric or campanulate, 2-3 cm long, 1-1.5 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts gradually changed from the foliage, 4-5-seriate, the outermost strongly ciliate like the leaves, the innermost oblong or linear-oblong, about 2 cm long and 7 mm broad, chaffy, glabrous, with very narrowly membranous finely jagged margins. Receptacle long-setose. Corolla 1.7 cm long, narrowly cylindric and ribbed towards the base, gradually widened upwards, glabrous; lobes linear, subacute, 3.5 mm long. Anthers slightly exserted beyond the tips of the corolla. Achenes flattened, 8 mm long, appressed-villous. Pappus brownish-yellow, 1.4 mm long.
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Twiggy shrublet to 25 cm. Leaves oblong, keeled, recurving, ciliate on margins and sometimes on undersides. Flower heads discoid, cylindric, solitary at branch tips, pink, 20-30 x 10-15 mm; bracts viscid.
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