Shrub, up to 2 m high, repeatedly branched. Stems white-tomentose on upper parts, leafy throughout. Leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile; blade narrowly ovate, narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong, up to 30 x 10 mm, apex acute, base cuneate or rounded, margins slightly revolute, entire, glandular-hairy, smooth above, white-tomentose below; often with 2-4 prominent veins parallel to main vein. Heads radiate, sessile or nearly so, terminal and axillary towards ends of branches, often then disposed in large, drawn-out panicles. Involucre turbinate-campanulate, ± 8 x 5 mm; involucral bracts 6-9-seriate, narrowly ovate, acuminate, mucronate, somewhat squarrose, loosely cobwebby. Receptacle epaleate. Flowers: ray florets female, fertile, reddish, blue or mauve; disc florets bisexual, yellow, reddish to mauve; Jan.-Apr. Fruit with cypsela narrowly cylindric, 4-6-ribbed, thinly pilose with a basal coma, ± 1.75 mm long. Pappus biseriate, inner row of 10-12 long, delicate, subbarbellate bristles, alternating with outer row of minute scales.
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Many-branched shrub, up to 2 m high. Leaves alternate, sessile, ovate, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, margins entire, smooth and glabrous above, white-tomentose below, often trinerved from base. Capitula radiate, in upper drawn-out panicle; involucre narrowly cup-shaped; bracts imbricate. Ray florets mauve. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time almost all year. Pappus of barbellate bristles alternating with minute scales. Cypselae oblong, 4-6-angular.
A shrub. It grows about 1 m high. The stems are leafy throughout. The leaves are dark green and fine. They are 3 cm long by 1 cm wide. They are shiny above and grey white underneath. The flowers are purple and in heads. They are towards the ends of branches.
Shrub, up to 1 m high. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, smooth and glabrous above, white-tomentose below. Pappus of bristles alternating with minute scales. Flowers with mauve rays and yellow disc.
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