 It has red strawberry-like flower heads.Leaves are narrowly inverted-lanceshaped to linear-oblong, 3-8 x 0.3–1 cm ( x ), pointed to rather blunt with a small point at the tip, long-narrowed at the base, rather thinly appressed-hairy on both surfaces, the pair of leaves subtending the at branch-ends inflorescence stalkless, lanceshaped-ovate, long-tapering.Flower-heads are stalkless above the uppermost pair of leaves, spherical, in diameter, sometime finally shortly cylindrical and up to about long; bracts about , narrowly deltoid-ovate, somewhat plicate, mucronate with the shortly excurrent midrib, bracteoles strongly compressed, boat-shaped, about , mucronate, with an almost complete crest like that of Gomphrena globosa but generally even wider and more deeply toothed.