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Perennial herb; flowering stems up to 250 mm high, solitary; loosely greyish white woolly, leafy. Leaves in basal rosette; blade of basal leaves elliptic to obovate, ± 70 x 30 mm, upper surface initially loosely white or greyish woolly, later shortly pubescent, lower surface white-felted, older leaves discolorous; blade of stem leaves narrowly elliptic, ± 15 x 5 mm, becoming smaller upwards, greyish white-woolly. Heads discoid, campanulate, ± 15 x 30 mm, solitary. Involucral bracts in ± 15 series, graded, loosely imbricate, much exceeding florets, tips acute, radiating, outer palest golden-brown, sometimes pinkish or crimson, inner opaque white, pinkish at base inside, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, nearly smooth. Flowers: disc florets only, 217-277; corolla campanulate above, yellow; Nov.-Jan. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) hairy. Pappus of many bristles with subplumose tips, bases with patent cilia, sometimes cohering.
Rhizomatous, perennial herb, with 1-many basal leaf rosettes, flowering stems solitary, up to 250 mm high, loosely greyish white-woolly, leafy. Leaves: radical leaves prostrate, up to 70 mm long, elliptic to obovate, white-or grey-woolly above, later shortly pubescent, white-felted below, older leaves discolorous, drying ± grey above, ± white below; cauline leaves up to 15 mm long, smaller upwards, distant, narrowly elliptic, greyish white-woolly. Capitula campanulate, 15 mm long, 30 mm in diam., solitary; involucral bracts in ± 15 series, graded, outer pale golden-brown, inner opaque white. Receptacle ± smooth. Flowers 217-277. Flowering time Nov.-Jan. Pappus of many bristles, apex subplumose. Cypselae 1 mm long, ellipsoid, hairy.
