A low erect shrublet to 0-7 m tall, branches tomentose when young becoming glabrous later, covered with loosely imbricate terete leaves. Leaves acicular terete, bluntly mucronate, canaliculate on the upper surface, 10-14 mm long, pilose when young, soon glabrous. Inflorescence a single terminal capitulum 1 x 5-2 cm in diam. Flowers arise from a globose receptacle, each flower being subtended by a bracteole. Involucral bracts massed around the base of the receptacle, narrowly ovate to lanceolate acute, 2-3 mm long, glabrous to pilose, margins ciliate. Bracteoles very narrowly elliptic to lanceolate acute. Outer surface sericeous. Perianth 6-7 mm long, deep carmine when fresh. Perianth limbs elliptic, woolly. Perianth claws filiform, spirally twisted in the open flower, sericeous. Perianth tube 1 mm long, cylindric, glabrous. Style filiform, 10-12 mm long. Pollen presenter cylindric to ellipsoid. Ovary ellipsoid, sericeous. Hypogynous scales linear subulate, 1 mm long. Fruits cylindrical, 6 mm long, 2 mm broad, glabrous, broadly emarginate and pedicellate at the base. The flowering period is brief, lasting from November to December.
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Single-stemmed, erect or spreading shrublet to 70 cm. Leaves needle-like, channelled above, 10-14 mm long. Flower heads crowded in flattened, terminal clusters, 15-20 mm diam., pink with dark tips.
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