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Shrub, up to 1 m high, bushy. Stems not winged, leafless in lower part, young stems white-felted. Leaves almost in a rosette at branch tips, some scattered along stem below heads, sessile; blade narrowly obovate, up to 40 x 15 mm, apex acute, base cuneate, margins distantly spine-toothed in upper half, upper surface glabrous, lower surface white-felted; bractlike leaves on peduncles alternate, smaller. Heads radiate, 50-70 mm in diameter, solitary, terminal, on white-felted shoots 150-300 mm long. Involucral bracts connate at base, linear or very narrowly ovate, up to 3 mm wide, tips and margins spiny, white-felted on backs. Flowers: ray and disc florets yellow; Jan.-Apr. Fruit with cypsela villous, turbinate, ± 2 mm long. Pappus of scales, biseriate, up to 1.5 mm long, narrowly ovate, acute.
A bushy shrub up to 1 m tall, stems branching near the tips, old parts glabrous, leafless, young stems white-felted, short, closely leafy. Leaves almost rosetted at the branch tips, up to 4 x 1.5 cm, oblanceolate, narrowed to a petiole-like base, distantly spine-toothed in the upper half, glabrous above, white-felted below. Heads 5-7 cm across the expanded rays, solitary, terminal, on distantly leafy, white-felted shoots 15-30 cm long. Involucral bracts lanceolate, up to 3 mm broad, tips and margins spiny, white-felted on the backs. Rays and disc yellow. Achenes c. 2 mm long, turbinate, villous. Pappus scales up to 2.5 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate.
