a shrub up to 9 ft. high; branchlets adpressed-puberulous or pubescent; leaves 1 1/4–1 3/4 in. long, 1–1 1/2 lin. broad, linear, with a subacute callous apex, straight or more often somewhat falcate, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous; male heads subglobose, about 5 lin. in diam., surrounded by a few narrow-based leaves which are a little longer than those below, rarely with a few of the inner ones becoming smaller and bract-like; floral bracts oblong, obtuse, 1/2 lin. long, slightly keeled on the back, thinly pubescent towards the base; perianth-tube 1/2 lin. long, cylindric, glabrous; segments spathulate-linear, 1 1/4 lin. long, glabrous; limb 2/3 lin. long, narrowly oblong, obtuse, glabrous; anthers 1/2 lin. long; style 1 3/4 lin. long, slender, glabrous; stigma clavate, 1/3 lin. long; female heads oblong-ellipsoid, about 1/2 in. long, surrounded by a small involucre of short acuminate ciliate bracts; floral bracts transversely oblong-elliptic, about 3 lin. long and 4 lin. broad, coriaceous, rather densely adpressed-pubescent across the middle, glabrous, around the margin and near the base; perianth-tube glabrous; segments linear, glabrous; staminodes very small; ovary compressed, suborbicular, slightly emarginate, winged, about 1 1/4 lin. in diam., glabrous; style 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; stigma clavate; fruiting head about 1 in. long, surrounded by a few more or less coloured leaves; fruit compressed, winged, suborbicular, slightly emarginate, 2 1/2 lin. in diam., glabrous. null
