Sclerolaena bicornis var. bicornis

Usually a dense, intricately branched shrub to c. 50 cm high, branches white-woolly. Leaves linear, plano-convex to subterete, 6–13 mm long, glabrous or, usually, sericieous at least when young, finally glabrous. Fruiting perianth hard, white-; tube more or less globular, 4–6 mm long and wide, attachment flat; limb erect, to c. 2 mm long; spines 2, stout, opposite, erect to spreading c. 5–15 mm long, woolly at least in basal half. Flowers Oct.–Feb.