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Inner florets c. 15, corollas whitish or reddish-tinged, 5–7 mm. long, infundibuliform, sparsely puberulous, limb 4–5 mm. long with erect linear lobes 3–4 mm. long, lobes subacute and sometimes recurved at the apex; achenes c. 4.5 mm. long, narrowly turbinate, strongly 10-ribbed, uniformly densely appressed-ascending setose between the ribs, the bristles less than half the achene in length, the lowermost tuft of hairs shorter and more numerous often spreading; pappus 2-seriate, the outer of 10–20 slender barbellate setae 7–11 mm. long, the inner of 5–6 more robust very narrowly scale-like setae, 7–12 mm. long, broadly membranous undulate-winged towards the base and ciliolate particularly in the upper part.
Leaves with a petiole up to c. 16 mm. long, broadly canaliculate, lanate; lamina mostly 1–8 x 0.5–2.4 cm., narrowly to broadly elliptic, acute at the apex, cuneate below, margins obscured subserrate with callose teeth, greyish-lanate on the upper surface and more densely so beneath; the greyish indumentum occasionally intermixed with brownish hairs, margins and midrib beneath often markedly brownish-lanate.
Semiprostrate or suberect perennial herb, up to 200 mm tall. Leaves petiolate, lamina elliptic to ovate-elliptic, margins entire, greyish or suffused brownish lanate, concolorous. Heads axillary, sessile or subsessile; neuter ray flowers present, rudimentary. Pappus 2-seriate, ciliate, inner becoming undulate-winged towards base. Flowers with whitish or reddish disc.
Phyllaries numerous, stiffly chartaceous with narrow membranous margins, ± sharply ciliolate; the outer phyllaries from c. 5 mm. long, subulate-aristate, sparsely lanate, tapering to a long curved or straight apical bristle; the inner phyllaries to c. 26 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, tapering to a straight narrowly acute-pungent apex, glabrescent.
Outer florets neuter; corollas rudimentary, c. 5 mm. long, filiform; ovary rudimentary, to c. 1.5 mm. long; pappus several-seriate of numerous barbellate setae 18–25 mm. long, not or hardly exceeding the involucre, overtopping the inner floret pappus.
Capitula few to many, solitary and terminal on branches or short shoots, subsessile and axillary, subtended by 1-several leaves.
A prostrate or low suberect perennial herb to c. 60 cm. in diam. or to c. 25 cm. tall, from a woody taproot.
Involucre mostly 17–27 x 10–16 mm., spreading to c. 30 mm. wide, campanulate.
Stems annual, 1-several, branched, leafy, brownish or greyish lanate.
