Diffusely branching slender shrublet 0.3-0.5 m high, greyish-tomentose throughout, older stems and branches glabrescent. Leaves lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 0.5-1 cm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, margins revolute, apex obtuse to rounded and dark-apiculate. Capitula 15-20, in dense, terminal, corymbiform, 1.2-1.8 cm wide synflorescence. Involucre cup-shaped, 4-4.5 mm high, 2-3 mm wide. Involucral bracts 18-19; outer 9-11, filiform-linear, 2.5-3 mm long, 0.2-0.5 mm wide, woolly, with dark brown, membranous, glabrous tip; inner c. 8, unguiculate, c. 4 mm long, with a linear, sub-coriaceous, yellowish-greenish, woolly claw (c. 2.5 mm long); white petaloid portion rounded-square, 1.2-1.5 mm long and wide, sometimes truncate or emarginate, snow-white. Female floret 1; corolla shortly 5-6-lobed, 2.3 mm long; style branches c. 1 mm long, linear-filiform; cypsela (immature) elliptic-oblong, ribbed, glabrous; pappus bristles basally shortly connate, barbellate throughout with acute teeth, apical teeth short, sparse. Functionally male florets 6-7; corolla 5-lobed, yellow, glandular on the limb with shortly stalked or sessile, golden yellow, rounded glands. Anthers c. 1 mm long incl. narrowly ovate-triangular obtuse appendage. Style simple, filiform, with somewhat dilated, shortly bilobed tip; ovary aborted, narrow, glabrous, with two vascular strands. Pappus bristles c. 8-10, slender and flexuous, basally shortly connate, barbellate with spreading acute teeth from the base, apically thickened and more opaque with spreading short and thickened rounded to obtuse teeth.
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Diffuse, grey-woolly shrublet to 50 cm. Leaves narrowly elliptic, margins revolute, glabrescent above, felted below. Flower heads in compact, rounded clusters, discoid, 4.0-4.5 mm long, yellowish, outer bracts woolly, inner petaloid bracts woolly below, male florets 6 or 7, female florets 1, ovary glabrous.
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