Tufted herb with pseudo-stem ± 6 cm. long. Lvs rather rigid, thick, coriac.; lamina linear to linear-oblong, tapering regularly from base to acute or subacute stiff apex, ± 10-15-(30) cm. × (3)-4-5-(8) mm.; upper surface showing dark green when fresh, white-silvery when dry, owing to conspicuous transversely wrinkled ± sulcate pellicle; lower clad in dense white appressed satiny tomentum, midrib prominent, rounded or keeled, veins manifest; margins entire, not or slightly recurved, or rarely much-recurved; base widened to thinly coriac., ± floccose, strongly nerved sheath ± 6 cm. × 5 mm., nerves ∞. Scape flattened, at least in lower half, ± 15-30 cm. long, rather stout, clad in subappressed to floccose white hairs. Bracts ∞, lower laminae up to ± 4 cm. long, linear-subulate, tomentum white, appressed. Capitula ± 4 cm. diam. Phyll. ∞, midrib evident; outer ovate, acuminate, up to 15 × 3 mm.; inner scarious towards apex, floccose on margins and base. Ray-florets ∞, ± 16 mm. long, tube slender, limb ± oblanceolate, teeth 2-4, conspicuous. Disk-florets c. 7 mm. long, narrow-funnelform, teeth oblong-triangular. Achenes ± 3 mm. long, compressed-cylindric, ribbed, densely clad in short ascending silky hairs. Pappus-hairs white to sordid-white, very slender, up to c. 6 mm. long, hardly barbellate.
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