Usually 60-80 cm high, normally much branched, with pilose branchlets. Leaves mostly 4-7 mm long, closely set, lanceolate-linear or lanceolate, acute or, less often, obtuse, apiculate, keeled throughout the length of the dorsal surface and the upper half of the ventral surface, furrowed up the lower half of the ventral surface, scabrid, at first ciliate, becoming glabrous, erect-spreading, mostly curved outwards from the middle. Stipules minute, subulate. Flower-heads terminal, solitary or clustered, 3-5 mm wide, with 1 or rarely 2 flowers open at the same time, involucred and overtopped by enlarged very obtuse whitish leaves. Bract and bracteoles acicular, reaching to the middle of the petals, with caducous hairs on the dorsal surface. Calyx-tube obconic, clothed with caducous unicellular hairs, adhering to the ovary except for the upper cup-shaped part: calyx-lobes lanceolate, subulate-acute, with caducous hairs on the dorsal surface, reaching to the tips of the petals. Petals about 2 mm long, obovate-oblong or elliptic, very obtuse, glabrous or with a few hairs on the upper half of the dorsal surface, pale mauve. Anthers about 0-5 mm long, rotund. Styles united throughout, reaching to the upper half of the petals. Fruit unknown.
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Finely leafy, twiggy shrublet to 60 cm, coppicing from a woody caudex. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 4-10 mm long. Flowers in small heads surrounded by small, white, recurving bracts, pink.
A shrub with fine leaves. It grows 60-80 cm tall. The leaves are 4-10 mm long. The flowers are in small heads with white bracts around them. The bracts are pink.
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