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high by up to 50cm across. Leaves linear, mucronate, 2-5 by 1mm with tiny teeth towards the base. Flowerheads sessile and solitary with four to five florets. Similar N. pentacaenoides has entire, 3-10mm triangular-sectioned leaves and larger flowerheads, 8-9 by 4mm, with only three florets. Both species are in south-western Patagonia in dry steppeland slopes and terraces at 500-1000m. N. hillii, from 1000m in the same country has curving, mucronate leaves 5-12mm long with much larger teeth, and five florets per head. These delightful little Argentinian nassauvias are spectacularly free-flowering in the wild and substantially different from the better known clusterhead species. [Pl.293].
