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Outer phyllaries 5–11 mm. long, ovate or linear-lanceolate, acute or with a caudate appendage-like apical portion elongating to c. 20 mm. long, fimbriate-denticulate on the margins especially in the upper part; inner phyllaries up to c. 16 mm. long, tapering lorate, grading into the receptacular paleae, margins membranous often purplish and fimbriate-denticulate about the apex, the apex sometimes expanded and appendage-like.
Stems annual, 1-several, simple or branching above, leafy to the apex with leaves diminishing in size and number below, somewhat stem-sheathing on the lower stem, araneose-lanate sometimes becoming coarsely pilose-pubescent; the indumentum of fine matted-appressed whitish hairs sometimes intermixed with few to numerous large brownish patent hairs.
Disk-floret corollas creamy-white, mostly c. 11 mm. long, narrowly tubular below and abruptly dilated into a subcylindric-campanulate, deeply lobed limb c. 5 mm. long, lobes c. 4 mm. long, linear.
Achenes c. 5 mm. long, subcylindric, 5-angled, obscurely ribbed on the angles, minutely puberulous; carpopodium thin; pappus of caducous linear scale-like barbellate setae 6–8 mm. long.
Capitula 1–5, solitary and terminal on the stem and short apical branches, subtending leaf-like bracts wanting or small and ± equalling the capitula in length.
Involucres mostly 11–15 x 10–20 mm., increasing to c. 25 mm. wide when mature, becoming broadly campanulate and truncate at the base, araneose-lanate.
An erect suffrutex to c. 60 cm. tall, from a woody rootstock with numerous spreading, thong-like roots.
Receptacular paleae similar to the inner phyllaries.
Ray-florets absent.
