Dissocarpus paradoxus

Decumbent to suberect shrub, to c. 20 cm high, 50 cm diam. Leaves linear to narrow-elliptic, semi-terete, 6–16 mm long, densely white-woolly. Flowers 8–16, united into woolly spherical axillary clusters. Aggregate fruit woolly, burr-like, 10–15 mm diam., woody in the central part, perianth lobes developing hard, tapered, sometimes hooked spines 3–6 mm long. Fruits most of year.