Tufted perennial (?) herb, taproot woody, stems several from the crown, erect to ±130 mm, mostly loosely branched, white appressed-woolly, leafy. Leaves 8-30 x 2-5 mm, smaller on the inflorescence branches, oblanceolate becoming lanceolate upwards, apex acute, base of lower leaves narrowed, more or less ear-clasping, of upper broad, half-clasping, margins crisped, both surfaces thinly greyish-white appressed-woolly. Heads heterogamous, broadly campanulate, ±5 x 5 mm, 7 mm across the radiant bracts, solitary or 2-3 on short peduncles at the branchlet tips, arranged in loose corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in ±7 series, graded, imbricate, backs lightly woolly, tips glabrous, acute, subopaque, light golden-brown, squarrose, the innermost slightly exceeding the flowers. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers ±62-77, 3-5 female, 59-72 homogamous. Achenes not seen, ovaries either glabrous, or those of female flowers with myxogenic hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips barbellate, shaft scabrid, bases with minute patent cilia, not cohering.
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Bushy, grey-woolly subshrub, up to 150 mm tall. Leaves oblanceolate, ± undulate, mostly 10-30 x 2-5 mm, grey-woolly. Flowerheads clustered in branched corymbs, disciform, broadly campanulate, ± 5-7 mm long, bracts ± 7-seriate, acute and apically spreading, recurved, golden-brown, florets ± 60-80.
Like H. cylindriflorum but flower heads broadly campanulate, florets 60-75, and tips of involucral bracts flat, acute and ± 2 mm long.
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