An erect much-branched shrub up to 1.2 m high, often fairly dense. Branches greyish-reddish brown, with a dense arachnose-floccose tomentum when young, closely leafy, becoming glabrous, nude and marked with leaf-scars lower down. Leaves closely set, ± spreading, completely entire, filiform, 1-5 cm long, 0.4-0.8 mm wide, subterete or slightly flattened, straight or somewhat curved upwards, dull green often with a brownish tinge, faintly midveined, glabrous except for a narrow woolly strip along the midvein on the adaxial side (esp. distinct on the young leaves), subacute-obtuse with a ± truncate point. Peduncles lateral in the upper leaf-axils in a corymb-like arrangement, filiform, slender, 2-6(-9) cm long, 0.3-0.6 mm thick, glabrous, yellowish green or often straw-coloured or somewhat brownish, terete or striate-sulcate. Involucre hemispherical, 5-8 mm wide, 2-4 mm high. Involucral bracts 7-13, uniseriate, connate to 1/2-2/3, seldom free from the base, lanceolate-narrowly elliptic-oblong, 2.5-4 mm long, 1-1.5(-2) mm wide, mostly herbaceous and rather thin, indistinctly veined, greenish or reddish brown, glabrous except for the puberulous tips. Receptacle convex, distinctly alveolate with raised pit-margins. Ray-florets 5-13, yellow. Tube 1-2 mm long, cylindrical. Lamina narrowly elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate-elliptic or broadly oblong, 3.5-9 mm long, 1-3.5 mm wide. Style terete with swollen base; style branches 0.5-1 mm long, truncate-obtuse. Disc-florets c. 20-40. Corolla 2.5-3.8 mm long. Tube 1-1.5 mm long, cylindrical. Limb widely campanulate, 1.3-2.3 mm long; lobes deltoid-narrowly ovate, 0.7-1.2 mm long. Anthers 1-1.5 mm long incl. the ovate obtuse appendage. Style terete or flattened with swollen base; stylophore short; style branches 0.3-0.7 mm long with truncate or slightly convex tips. Pappus bristles numerous, 1-2 mm long, white. Achenes obovate-oblong, c. 2 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, with 5-8 prominent thick ribs, white-puberulous with short appressed papillae between the ribs (mucilaginous when soaked), otherwise shiny brown.
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Closely leafy shrub to 1.2 m, densely cobwebby on young parts. Leaves spreading, filiform, terete or somewhat flattened, woolly on lower midline, 10-50 mm long. Flower heads radiate, on slender peduncles together forming loose umbels, yellow. Achenes white-puberulous, mucilaginous when wet.
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