Roots wiry. Basal leaves glabrous; blades linear to falcate (110-)180(-300) mm long, (3.5-)10(-18.5) mm broad, apex acute, leaf base dilated, clasping or half-clasping with submembranous margins, silky hairs prominent, margins thickened, slightly muricate, finely impressed veins; texture coriaceous, somewhat thickish; cauline leaves glabrous, diminishing in size upwards, 4-130 mm long, 1.5-10 mm broad, base expanded, clasping, shortly decurrent, sometimes pilose in the axil. Corymbophore elliptic to angular in cross section scabrid, sometimes lower half pilose, (130-)340(-520 mm long. Heads in compact, corymbose cluster; arranged in a corymb. Involucral bracts glabrous, upper involucral bracts subtended by 2-3 smaller bracts, uppe sheathing bracts (6.4-)7.5(-9) mm long, green with purple tips when fresh. Flowers white or pink, pedicel present. Petals linear, acute 4.5-6 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm broad; corolla tube 1.2-2 mm long. Anthers 2-3 m including the base. Ovary hirsute, style branches ca. 2 mm long, obtuse. Cypselas ca. 5 mm long, ca. 1 mm] broad, linear to obovoid. Pappus coroniform at base, fimbriate, bristles many, ca. 1 mm long. Flowering time is from November to February with a peak during November and December.
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Tufted perennial to 40 cm with scabrid stems. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, leathery with veins inconspicuous, silky at base. Flower heads discoid, in dense corymbs, white or pink, bracts smooth.