An erect to suberect sprawling shrub 200 mm-1.0 m in height, 1.0-2.0 m in diam. Flowering stems erect or trailing, 1.0-2.0 mm in diam., thinly puberulous with fine crisped hairs, soon glabrous. Leaves linear-spathulate, entire, 9-45 mm long, 1.5-6.0 mm wide, apex rounded, obtuse. Leaves dull grey-glaucous, puberulous at first becoming glabrous; stiffly erect-ascending or secund. Inflorescences terminal, globose, 15-20 mm in diam. Involucral receptacle depressed globose, 30-40 mm in diam. Involucral bracts ovate, 60-80 mm long, 20-40 mm broad, outer surface thickly tomentose to lanate; bracts imbricate, cartilaginous, uniseriate. Floral bracts ovate-acute, 50-70 mm long, 25-30 mm wide, thickly lanate, tightly clasping the perianth. Perianth 10-15 mm long, straight, the four perianth claws becoming equally recurved at anthesis; cream or pink in fresh state. Perianth tube 2-3 mm long, slightly quadrangular, glabrous. Perianth claws filiform, the outer surface beset with a fine crisped indumentum. Perianth limbs lanceolate-acute, 3 mm long, outer surface very shortly villous. Anthers sessile, elliptic, 2.5 mm long, apical boss pointed, black. Style 10-13 mm long, straight, pale yellowish-green at first becoming deep claret-coloured with age. Pollen presenter clavate-obtuse, 1.5-2.0 mm long, greenish when fresh, becoming amber with age. Stigmatic pore terminal, minute. Ovary ovoid, 10 mm long, very clearly differentiated from style; pubescent. Hypogynous scales subulate, hyaline, 1 mm long. Fruit an ovoid, puberulous to glabrous achene, 5-6 mm long, 4 mm wide.
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Prostrate, mat-forming shrub, 1-2 m diam. Leaves linear-spathulate, 9-45 mm long. Flower heads solitary, terminal, cream-coloured to pink, fragrant, 15-20 mm diam.
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