A low spreading, decumbent to sub-erect shrub, 0.5-1 m tall, forming large mats 1-1.5 m in diam. Branches quite glabrous, bark reddish. Leaves 6-14 mm long, linear, semi-terete, bluntly mucronate, slightly flattened to concave or channelled on the upper surface, glabrous, but occasionally pilose when young, bright green and reddish tinted in live state. Inflorescence a rather lax, sessile to subsessile terminal cylindric raceme, 1-2.5 cm long, 1 cm wide. Bracts lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 3-4 mm long, glabrous. Involucres three-flowered, pedicellate, pedicel 1 mm long. Bracteoles free, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acute to acuminate, clasping the perianth at the base, somewhat naviculiform, 4-7 mm long, glabrous. Median anticous bracteole barren. Perianth 8 mm long, strongly curved forward in the limb region when in bud. Perianth limbs equal, 1 mm long, elliptic, thickly sericeous. Perianth claws narrow, outer surface sparsely sericeous, inner surface long sericeous at the base. Perianth tube 4-5 mm long, slightly quadrangular, glabrous but very sparsely sericeous at the top. Anthers sessile, elliptic, 1 mm long, apical boss ovoid, black. Style arising obliquely from the posterior portion of the ovary, straight but curved forwards at right angles in the subterminal region, 6-7 mm long. Pollen presenter obliquely conic ovoid, stigmatic groove terminal. Ovary ovoid, thinly sericeous, 1 mm long. Hypogynous scales subulate, 1.5 mm long, white. Fruits cylindric-obtuse, truncate and pedicellate at the base, villous, 4 mm long. The flowering period is brief, from November to December.
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Small shrub, spreading to erect, branched, forming mats, 0.5-1.0 m high. Leaves linear to needle-like, upper surface grooved, 6-14 mm long, green with red tint, hairless when mature. Inflorescence a terminal, lax raceme, 10-25 x 10 mm, with 3-flowered, axillary racemes. Flowers: perianth 8 mm long with thin hairs on claws, curved forward in bud, tube 4-5 mm long, pink; style curved forward at tip, 6-7 mm long, hairless, pointing downwards; pollen presenter asymmetrically ovoid, tip conical. Flowering time Aug.-Mar.
Sprawling to mat-forming shrublet to 1 m. Leaves linear-subterete, glabrescent. Flower heads in short racemes, 10-25 mm long, silvery pink, upper tepal larger, style inflexed, 6-7 mm long, pollen presenter ovoid.
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