Straggly, loosely branched perennial herb, possibly up to 600 mm tall, base woody, branches erect or ascending, brittle, loosely woolly, flowering stems in the axils of dry withered leaves below new leafy growth, up to 400 mm long, slender, simple below, forking above into the lax inflorescence, loosely woolly, remotely leafy. Leaves on vegetative shoots crowded, those at the tips spreading, ±30-80 x 10-30 mm, panduriform, apex subacute to subobtuse, base auricled, amplexicaul, upper surface thinly cobwebby, lower white-felted; leaves on flowering stems smaller, distant, oblong-elliptic becoming lanceolate upwards, base broad, cordate-clasping, indumentum as in primary leaves. Heads homogamous, broadly campanulate, ±6-8 mm long, 10-13 mm across when fully radiating, 2-10 in a very open corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in ±7 series, graded, loosely imbricate, inner much exceeding flowers, bases woolly, tips obtuse or subacute, opaque, snow-white. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers ±100, yellow. Achenes 1.5 mm long, ellipsoid, glabrous. Pappus bristles 12-15, about equalling corolla, delicate, tips subplumose, bases not cohering.
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