Stoebe capitata P.J.Bergius

Multi-stemmed, well branched shrub, up to 0.5 m tall, erect or suberect. Branches often candelabrum-like, cobwebby or somewhat woolly when young, very densely to sparsely leafy. Leaves 2-10 mm long, linear-subulate, strongly involute, spirally twisted, occasionally lanceolate and not tightly involute, adpressed or ascending; abaxial surface frequently glabrescent; loosely woolly or cobwebby when young; tips pungent. Synflorescences terminal, globose or subglobose to oblong or cylindrical. Capitula homogamous, discoid, 1-flowered. Receptacle reduced to short stalks on an inflated stem apex. Involucral bracts 6-8, not differing greatly in size and texture; chaffy; outermost with a green keel; innermost scarious, acute, acuminate or mucronate, as long as or a little longer than the corolla tube. Florets bisexual, with well developed, spreading corolla lobes, pink or white. Style bifid, swollen at the base. Nectaries present. Cypselas with rather short, shaggy, adpressed hairs. Pappus setae 10-12; mostly present, sometimes poorly developed or occasionally absent; somewhat shorter than the florets; setae flattened and slightly fused at the base with a few spreading barbs, plumose from close to the base; plumes inclined to spreading, relatively short; tips not tufted.