A low decumbent shrublet, sprawling, forming mats 0.6 m in diam., seldom more than 20 cm tall. Branches slender, prostrate, covered with somewhat upwardly turned imbricate leaves. Leaves acicular terete, 15-20 mm long, canaliculate on the upper surface, pilose at first, soon glabrous, mucronate. Inflorescence terminal, globose, 2 cm long. Bracts narrowly lanceolate acuminate, villous at base, glabrous towards apex, margins incurved. Involucres 4-7 flowered at base of inflorescence one flowered at apex. Bracteoles lanceolate acuminate, villous, 5 mm long. Perianth limbs narrowly elliptic, woolly. Perianth claws becoming coiled on opening villous to crisped. Perianth tube 1 x 5 mm long, glabrous to crisped. Style filiform, 10 mm long. Pollen presenter cylindric ellipsoidal, scarcely differentiated from the style. Anthers sessile, elliptic, tipped with a black apical boss. Ovary ovoid ellipsoid, 1 mm long, minutely stipitate, sericeous. Hypogynous scales minute, subulate, 0-5 mm long. Fruits broadly ellipsoid ovoid, 5-6 mm long, 2-5 mm broad, pubescent in basal region, broadly emarginate and pedicellate at base.
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Sprawling, mat-forming shrublet to 0.2 x 1 m. Leaves needle-like, channelled above, 15-20 mm long. Flower heads in terminal, globose clusters, ± 20 mm diam., white with dark tips.
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