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Evergreen shrub or slender erect tree 2–40 m tall, with ascending branches and rather light crown; trunk up to ± 60 cm in diameter, usually very fluted, eventually ± buttressed; bark light grey, longitudinally fissured, fibrous, peeling in long narrow shreds; young twigs densely shortly white-tomentose, glabrescent.. Leaves shortly petiolate; petiole 0.3–1 cm long; blade oblanceolate, obovate or elliptic, 3–12(–15) cm long, 1–3(–5.5) cm wide, base cuneate or rarely rounded, margins entire or sometimes remotely denticulate, apex acute to obtuse and shortly acuminate, mucronate, coriaceous, strongly discolorous, green and glabrous above, silvery white or grey with short dense persistent tomentum beneath.. Capitula subsessile, numerous in clusters on short side-branches or bracteate raceme-like axillary thyrses shorter than the leaves, the female shorter and with fewer capitula than the male; involucre ± cylindrical or campanulate, the male 2–5 mm long, the female 3–6 mm long; phyllaries 5–8, densely white-tomentose, in the female glabrescent with age, glabrous or subglabrous above, the inner much longer than the outer, the innermost 3–5 elliptic, acute, 2.5–6 mm long.. Florets 3–9, long-exserted; corolla white; corolla tube of male florets broader than in female, 1.3–2 mm long, lobes 5, narrowly oblong, 2–3 mm long, recurved; corolla tube of female florets slender, cylindrical, shortly 2-lipped, 5-lobed, 3.5–6 mm long, lobes slender, lanceolate, ± 1 mm long.. Achenes in female columnar or flattened, slightly narrowed towards the base, 2.8–4 mm long, 5–8-ribbed, densely pubescent and glandular; pappus of pale tawny minutely barbellate setae, 4–6.5 mm long.. Fig. 1.
Leaves with petioles 2–14 mm. long; lamina flat or revolute, mostly 3–10(12) x 1.2–3(4) cm., larger in coppice growth, narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate to obovate or elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, acute to rounded and distinctly mucronate at the apex, cuneate below, entire, slightly to strongly revolute, occasionally in obovate leaves ± strongly spinescent-denticulate, particularly towards the apex; upper surface thinly araneose, soon glabrescent and shiny dull-green with reticulate venation subprominent; lower surface greyish-or silvery-tomentellous with prominent veins.
Female capitula stalked, 5–6-flowered; involucres to c. 6 mm. long, cylindric-obconic; phyllaries increasing from c. 1 mm. long and ovate outside to c. 5 mm. long inside becoming oblong, tomentose, outer phyllaries not extending onto the capitulum stalk; corollas 4–6 mm. long, filiform, lobes erect up to c. 0.5 mm. long; achenes 3–4 mm. long, subcylindric, obscurely 6–8-ribbed, pubescent; pappus several-seriate, setae 4–5 mm. long ± terete, seta barbs ± equalling the seta axis in width.
Capitula few to many in short spikes, racemes or subglobose clusters; male synflorescences usually contracted into dense, stalked, axillary or terminal glomerules c. 1 cm. in diam., glomerules sometimes racemosely arranged on branchlets; female synflorescences composed of numerous, stalked, 2–6-capitulate clusters in leaf axils, or clusters racemosely arranged on numerous branchlets to c. 7 cm. long.
Male capitula sessile or sometimes shortly stalked, 6–7-flowered; involucres to c. 3 mm. long, cyathiform; phyllaries increasing from c. 1 mm. long and ovate outside to c. 3 mm. long inside becoming oblong, tomentose; corollas creamy-white, 3.5–5.5 mm. long, narrowly funnel-shaped with lobes c. 2 mm. long and ± recurved; pappus sparse, setae 2–3 mm. long with barbs exceeding the seta axis in width.
Tree, 5-9 m high. Leaves grey-or white-felted below, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, side veins visible, mucronate, crowded at tips of twigs. Involucral bracts 3-or 4-seriate, densely albo-tomentose, not extending down peduncle. Flowers cream-white; June and September to November.
A shrub or small tree to 7(30) m. tall, deciduous in dry areas; bark dark-grey, finely fissured, flaking in strips; branches becoming dark-purplish, lenticellate and narrowly sulcate, at first greyish-or brown-tomentellous later glabrescent; leaves crowded at the ends of twigs.
