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Perennial herb, up to 200 mm high; tufts of stems from creeping rootstock, simple or branched at or near base, erect, white-felted, closely leafy. Leaves: blade linear, mostly 8-15 x 0.51.0 mm, suberect, imbricate, apex acute, mucronate, sometimes strongly recurved, base broad, margins revolute, upper surface with thin, tissue paper-like indumentum of woolly hairs, lower surface white-felted. Heads disciform, oblong-campanulate, ± 3 x 2 mm, in compact, terminal clusters. Involucral bracts in ± 4 series, thinly webbed together with wool, graded, closely imbricate, inner nearly equalling florets, pellucid, straw-coloured, tips tawny, blunt, crisped-denticulate, ± squarrose, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, shortly toothed. Flowers: female and disc florets 18-31, 8-15 female; corolla of disc florets campanulate above, bright yellow; Jan.-Mar. Fruit with cypsela? (and ovary) hairy. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases cohering by patent cilia.
Stems erect, up to ± 150-200 mm, white-felted, closely leafy. Leaves mostly 8-15 x 0.5-1.0 mm, suberect, imbricate, apex acute, mucronate, base broad, upper surface with thin, tissue paper-like indumentum of woolly hairs, lower surface white-felted. Capitula heterogamous, oblong-campanulate, ± 3 x 2 mm, clusters 10-30 mm in diam.; involucral bracts in ± 4 series, thinly webbed together with wool, graded, pellucid, straw-coloured, apex tawny, blunt, crisped-denticulate, ± squarrose. Receptacle shortly toothed. Flowers 18-31, bright yellow. Flowering time Feb. Pappus of many bristles, ± equalling corolla.
