Rounded densely branched shrub to 1 m high, finely grey-tomentose with curled hairs; branchlets not spinescent. Leaves congested, spreading, obovate, 5–10 mm long, cuneate basally, obtuse to rounded apically, leathery, not resinous. Involucre narrowly cylindrical, spreading above, c. 10 mm long; bracts scarious, pale green with darker tips, sparsely tomentose, markedly ciliate, pale yellow-resinous. Florets (4) 5 (6); corolla c. 10 mm long, white. Male florets: anthers partly exserted, calcarate but not tailed; sterile achene c. 3 mm long. Female florets: style branches spreading; achene narrowly cylindrical, 6–7 mm long, glabrous; pappus bristles shortly plumose, ±equal to corolla.
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