A low, rounded, compact, much branched woody shrublet, 30-50 cm in height. Stems short, rigid, arising from a woody persistent rootstock. Leaves terete, 20-25 mm long, stout, 2 mm broad, canaliculate on the upper surface, mucronate; glabrous, but sparsely covered with long weak hairs when young. Inflorescence sessile, subglobose, 1 x 5 cm in diam. Involucres four-flowered, pedicellate, subtended by a lanceolate acuminate bract, glabrous towards the apex, strigose at the base. Bracteoles lanceolate acuminate, pubescence short, dense and crisped. Perianth 9 mm long. Perianth limbs narrowly ovate to lanceolate acute, thinly hispid to glabrous. Perianth claws linear, tomentelose, becoming twisted and coiled on opening. Perianth tube slightly constricted, 1 mm long, glabrous. Style filiform, terminated by a dark brown ellipsoid to cylindric pollen presenter; 7-8 mm long. Ovary thinly sericeous, ellipsoid. Hypogynous scales subulate, 1 mm long. Fruits ovoid, broadly emarginate and pedicellate at the base, glabrous.
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Rounded, much branched shrublet, 30-50 cm, multistemmed from a woody rootstock. Leaves needle-like, channelled above, 20-25 mm long. Flower heads few, in small, solitary, terminal clusters, cream-coloured with brown tips, thinly hairy.
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