A much-branched suberect to ascending shrublet up to c. 0.5 m tall, closely leafy and with some brachyblasts; flowering branches more laxly leafy. Leaves erecto-patent to spreading, spatulate to narrowly oblong-obovate, 7-13 mm long, (2.5-)3-4 mm wide, flat with narrowly revolute margins, distinctly midribbed on the lower side, half clasping, greyish-tomentose but glabrescent with age on upper side, apically obtuse to rounded and apiculate. Capitulescence somewhat loosely branched with corymbiform clusters of heads (some branches clearly visible), 1.5-3 cm wide. Capitulum c. 5 mm long and 2-3 mm wide. Outer involucral bracts 7-9, linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 2-4 mm long, light brownish-greyish woolly with glabrous, brown, membranous obtuse to truncate tips; inner involucral bracts 7-8, unguiculate, 4-4.5 mm long, claw linear to oblong, whitish-tomentose, apical petaloid portion broadly ovate to rounded 1-1.2 mm long and wide. Female floret 1; corolla tubular, c. 2.5 mm long, yellow shortly 5-lobed, apically glandular; ovary glabrous. Pappus as in male florets. Male florets 4-5; corolla yellow, 2.5-3 mm long, tubular below, narrowly campanulate above, 5-lobed, apically glandular. Anthers c. 1 mm long incl. narrowly ovate-triangular obtuse apical appendage. Style simple, apically truncate or minutely bifid; stylophore distinct, broader than style. Pappus bristles basally connate, barbellate throughout with slender ± acute teeth; apical teeth elongated, distinctly longer than bristle width.
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Suberect shrublet to 50 cm. Leaves oblanceolate, margins revolute, glabrescent above, felted below, ± 10 mm long. Flower heads in loose corymbs, discoid, 5 mm long, yellowish, outer bracts brownish woolly, inner petaloid bracts woolly below, male florets 4 or 5, female florets 1, ovary glabrous.
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