A slender, sparsely branched shrub with a single stout main stem. Branches covered with densely imbricate leaves. Leaves flattened, lanceolate acute, 5 mm wide, 15 mm long, apex mucronate or hooked, thinly pilose when young becoming glabrous and scabrous later. Inflorescence terminal, globose, usually single, up to 4 cm in diam. Involucres 4 flowered, pedicellate, subtended by a lanceolate acuminate bract to 14 mm long, scabrous on the outer surface, margins ciliate. Bracteoles narrowly lanceolate, densely ciliate, to 8 mm long. Perianth 10 mm long. Perianth limbs ovate elliptic, densely bearded with long, straight, silky hairs. Perianth claws filiform, scabrous, thinly covered with clavate glandular hairs. Perianth tube cylindric, 3 mm long, glabrous. Ovary ellipsoidal, glabrous, minutely stipitate. Style filiform, 9 mm terminated by a narrowly ovoid to ellipsoidal pollen presenter. Hypogynous scales absent. Fruits oblong cylindric, 5-6 mm long, brown and shiny, narrowly emarginate at the base. Flowering occurs between September and December.
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Slender, single-stemmed, sparsely branched shrub to 1.5 m. Leaves lanceolate, adpressed, glabrescent, ± 15 mm long, margins scabrid. Flower heads in globose, terminal clusters, ± 40 mm diam., cream-coloured, fragrant.
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