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Perennial herb, up to 0.55 m high; stems 1 or several from crown, simple or occasionally forked, thinly greyish woolly, closely leafy. Leaves: blade of basal leaves elliptic-oblong, 80 x 20 mm, apex acute, base clasping, both surfaces woolly; blade of stem leaves smaller, linear-oblong to narrowly ovate. Heads discoid, campanulate, (6-)7-14 mm long, many in corymbose clusters arranged in compact or open, corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in ± 6 series, graded, loosely imbricate, inner equalling or exceeding florets, tips radiating, acute to acuminate, often squarrose, dull, creamy white or yellowish often washed brown, purplish or crimson, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, with fimbrils ± equalling ovaries. Flowers: disc florets only, 28-58; corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, yellow; Jan.-Mar., Jun. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) glabrous. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.
Flowering stems 1-several, up to ± 550 mm high, mostly simple, thinly grey-woolly, closely leafy throughout. Leaves: radical leaves up to 80 mm long, elliptic-oblong, base broad, apex acute, clasping, both surfaces woolly; cauline leaves smaller, lanceolate-oblong to lanceolate, shortly decurrent, upper surface grey-woolly, often glandular-hispid, glabrescent, lower surface grey-woolly. Capitula campanulate, 6-14 mm long, many in corymbose clusters, these in panicles; involucral bracts in ± 6 series, graded, ± acute, often squarrose, dull, creamy white or ± yellow, often washed brown, purple or crimson. Flowers 28-58, yellow. Flowering time mainly Dec.-Feb. Pappus of many bristles. Cypselae 1 mm long, barrel-shaped.
Perennial herb, up to 0.55 m high. Radical leaves 80 x 20 mm, elliptic-oblong, both surfaces woolly; cauline leaves smaller, lanceolate-oblong to lanceolate. Heads campanulate, 7-14 mm long, many in corymbose clusters arranged in a compact or open corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts often squarrose. Flowers yellow; involucral bracts dull creamy white or yellowish often washed brown, purplish or crimson; August and November to March.
Leafy, grey-woolly subshrub to 50 cm. Leaves imbricate, oblanceolate, woolly but thinly woolly to glabrescent above. Flower heads discoid, many in congested corymbs, campanulate, creamy white flushed yellowish or red, 7-14 mm long, bracts sometimes acuminate-recurved, florets 30-60, ovary glabrous.
