An erect sparsely branched shrub with a single stout main stem, to 1 m. Branches erect, terete, stout, tomentellous when young, soon glabrous. Leaves acicular terete, long and slender, canaliculate on the upper surface, 40-60 mm long, apex mucronate. Inflorescence terminal, sessile, globose to ovoid, 2 x 5 cm in diam. Involucres 8 flowered, occasionally 7 or 9 flowered. Bracts narrowly lanceolate acuminate, 8-9 mm long, tomentose. Bracteoles narrowly lanceolate acuminate, 7 mm long, sericeous. Perianth 12 mm long. Perianth limbs glabrous, narrowly ovate, 1 mm long. Perianth claws filiform, becoming coiled and twisted on opening, thickly villous. Perianth tube glabrous, 3 mm long, distinctly quadrangular, slightly inflated at the base. Anthers sessile 1 mm long, apical boss poorly differentiated. Style straight, filiform, 10 mm long. Pollen presenter ovoid, with a minute terminal stigmatic papilla. Ovary ellipsoid, 1 mm long, minutely stipitate, puberulous. Hypogynous scales linear, obtuse. Fruits ellipsoid cylindrical, broadly emarginate at the base, minutely stipitate, faintly grooved on one surface, glabrous, becoming wrinkled, 5-6 mm long. Flowering commences in June and continues into October.
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Single-stemmed shrub to 1 m. Leaves needle-like, channelled above, 40-60 mm long. Flower heads in terminal, subglobose clusters, ± 25 mm diam., cream-coloured with glabrous black tips.
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