Perennial herb, stems diffuse, prostrate or scrambling, occasionally rooting at the nodes, branching, young parts greyish-white woolly-felted, closely leafy, flowering twigs with distant reduced leaves Leaves mostly 11-14 x 5-6 mm, diminishing slightly upwards, then abruptly much reduced and distant below the heads, obovate to obovate-oblong, narrowed to the base, uppermost oblong, sessile, apex rounded or obtuse, mucronate, upper surface thinly greyish-white woolly, often glabrescent, lower thickly and persistently woolly. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±4 x 4 mm up to ±12 in congested rounded terminal clusters. Involucral bracts in 4-5 series, imbricate, graded, inner equalling flowers, not radiating , lanceolate to oblong, straw-coloured, tips rounded or acute, often dark, whole bract thickly silky-villous dorsally, hairs yellowish. Receptacle smooth. Flowers 15-29, 4-6 female, 11-23 homogamous. Achenes not seen, ovaries 5-ribbed, with duplex hairs, not myxogenic. Pappus bristles many, shaft barbellate, becoming shortly plumose above, bases cohering by patent cilia. Flowers between September and December, mainly in November and December.
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Diffuse, straggling shrublet to 50 cm, white-felted on young parts. Leaves obovate, spreading, often glabrescent above, white-felted beneath. Flower heads disciform, few in congested, terminal clusters, campanulate, straw-coloured, ± 4 x 4 mm, bracts densely silky, florets 15-30, ovary hairy.
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