A sprawling decumbent shrub with stems trailing over the ground forming tangled mats 1.5 m in diam. Branches decumbent, lax, glabrous to minutely pubescent. Leaves acicular terete, somewhat incurved, mucronate, glabrous, 15-30 mm long. Inflorescence ovoid-cylindric, 2-4 cm long, 1.5 cm in diam., terminal and single at the apex of a branch, somewhat lax, pedunculate to almost sessile, peduncle up to 1 cm long. Bracts broadly lanceolate acute, 6-8 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, margins densely ciliate, outer surface sericeous. Involucres 3 flowered, pedicellate, pedicel 2 mm long, villous. Lower three bracteoles lanceolate acute, free, villous to sericeous, 5-6 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, greenish and carmine tipped in the fresh state. Median anticous bracteole narrowly lanceolate, flattened in the vertical plane by the infolding of the margins and subtending a forked to bifid sericeous shoot. Perianth 12-14 mm long, limbs strongly curved forward in bud, at right angles to the perianth claws. Perianth claws equally developed, thickly villous, becoming spirally coiled on opening. Perianth limbs ovate elliptic, 1.5 mm long, woolly. Perianth tube cylindric to funnel shaped, villous at the top becoming glabrous towards the base, 1.5 mm long. Anthers sessile, elliptic, apical boss round, black. Style 10-11 mm long, arched forwards in a cygneus curve. Pollen presenter conic ovoid, black. Ovary ovoid, 1 mm long, densely velutinous. Hypogynous scales subulate 1 mm long, pale yellow. Fruits cylindric ovoid, 6 mm long 3-4 mm in diam. truncate and broadly pedicellate at the base, puberulus. Flowering commences in October and continues somewhat erratically until December.
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Resprouting, mat-forming shrublet to 1.5 m diam. Leaves needle-like. Flower heads in cylindrical racemes, 20-40 mm long, silvery pink or whitish, lower bracteole subtending a forked shoot, tepals equal, style sigmoid, ± 10 mm long, pollen presenter ovoid, black.
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