Branchlets and leaves densely ashy-pilose. Leaves close together, erect, sessile, coriaceous, linear-oblong, tapering towards both ends, subacute, 2 3/4 in. long, 9 lin. wide. Heads subglobose, about 3 in. in diam.; bracts densely brownish silky, outer ovate, in about 4 series, 4–12 lin. long, innermost in 2 series, linear-oblong, 1 1/2 in. long, 4 lin. wide. Perianth rather longer than the bracts, densely clothed with rusty hairs; tube compressed, oblong; upper lobe of limb boat-shaped, 3-toothed, lower lobe narrow. Filament narrowly cuneate; anther narrowly linear, 2 1/2 lin. long, 1/2 lin. wide; connective produced into a small cone. Ovary oblong, densely clothed with long rusty hairs; style longer than the perianth, thickened below, tapering upwards.
