A much branched shrub, about 60 cm high, up to 90 cm, with ascending, wiry branches. Branchlets mostly slender, with a dense covering of short, white tomentum. Leaves mostly 0.7-1.5 cm long, up to 2.5 cm long: lamina linear or lanceolate-linear, rarely lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or tipped with an acute callus, more or less, sometimes deeply, cordate at base, semiterete, with closely revolute margins covering the lower surface or almost so, rarely open-backed; upper surface very minutely tubercled or almost smooth, at first tomentose but soon becoming glabrous: petiole about 1 mm long. Stipules 2-3 mm long, linear-lanceolate or subulate, caducous. Capitula on short branchlets and clustered, or solitary, mostly 8-12 mm wide, hemisphaeric, involucred by scarious, trilobed scales arranged in 3 or more series. Bracts 3-4 mm long; in the lower half elliptic, cuneate-elliptic or rotundate, navicular, scarious, glabrous or villous at base; in the upper half trilobed, villous on the outer surface, the middle lobe narrowly linear or acicular, the lateral lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers mostly 5-8 mm long, on a short stipe furnished with long, white hairs which cover the ovary: calyx-tube 1.25-1.5 mm deep, campanulate, covered outside with white, woolly hair, glabrous within, with an annular disc near the base: sepals 3-5-4 mm long, lanceolate, attenuate, or ovate at base and linear or subulate upwards; outer surface with long, woolly hair; inner surface, puberulous, angular-convex above the middle. Petals inserted shortly within the mouth of the tube, 0.25-0.5 mm long, oblanceolate, obtuse, slightly concave on the inner side, with long cilia at the upper margins. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic, sparsely villous, crowned (within the tube) with a dense growth of woolly hairs. Style about 0.75 mm long, stout, sometimes sparsely villous. Stigma divided into 3 obtuse lobes. Fruit 6-8 mm long, three quarters superior, rotundate or orbicular, glabrous at the base, densely tomentose above, with a portion of the calyx-base forming a small ledge around the lower half and dividing the glabrous from the tomentose portion.
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Rounded shrublet, sometimes up to 900 mm tall, resprouting from persistent rootstock. Leaves with small, dry stipules, linear-lanceolate, 7-15 mm long, rough, margins closely revolute. Flowers in solitary, rounded capitula, pink, densely white-hairy on outside.
Rounded shrublet, sometimes to 90 cm, resprouting from persistent rootstock. Leaves with small, dry stipules, linear-lanceolate, 7-15 mm long, rough, margins closely revolute. Flowers in solitary, rounded capitula, pink, densely white-hairy on outside.
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