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Perennial herb; flowering stems 0.45-0.60 m high, solitary or several together, erect, simple, cobwebby to woolly tomentose, leafy in lower part, pedunculoid and bracteate upwards. Leaves: blade of basal leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic up to 250(-350) x 50(-80) mm, tapering into winged petiole, apex acute, becoming smaller upwards, oblong-linear, sessile; glandular-pubescent or lightly cobwebby to thickly tomentose, with prominent nerves. Heads discoid, oblong-campanulate, 5-7 x 3 mm, many in dense, corymbose clusters. Involucral bracts in ± 4 series, densely imbricate, outer webbed together with wool, inner slightly shorter than or equalling florets, tips acute, bright yellow, not radiating, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, shortly honeycombed. Flowers: disc florets only, 7-13; corolla narrowly campanulate above, yellow; Oct.-Jan. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) hairy. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia, some light fusion as well.
Variable perennial herb, rootstock stout. Stems solitary or several, erect, up to 600 mm long, simple, cobwebby to woolly-tomentose. Leaves: radical leaves up to 350 x 80 mm, blade elliptic or ovate-elliptic, tapering into a long, winged petiole, base expanded, clasping, both sides glandular-punctate, often glandular-pubescent, often cobwebby to densely grey-woolly also, 3-nerved; cauline leaves similar, soon sessile, oblong-lanceolate, becoming distant, linear-lanceolate bracts. Capitula oblong-campanulate, 5-7 x 3 mm, many in corymbose clusters, these in dense corymbose panicles; involucral bracts in 4 series, outer webbed with wool, pellucid, bright yellow. Flowers 7-13. Flowering time Sept.-Jan. Pappus of many bristles. Cypselae 1.25 mm long.
Perennial herb, 0.45-0.60 m high. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, becoming smaller upwards, lower tapering into winged petiole, upper sessile, glandular-pubescent or lightly cobwebby to thickly tomentose. Heads oblong-campanulate, 5-7 mm long, in dense corymbose clusters, involucral bracts densely imbricate. Flowers with bright yellow involucral bracts.
