Bushy perennial herb up to 400 mm high, old stems bare and woody below, otherwise leafy throughout, stems, leaves and base of each head enveloped in silvery, silky, skin-like indumentum. Leaves up to ±75(-90) x 5(-6) mm, narrowly lanceolate, apex long-acuminate, base slightly narrowed, half-clasping. Heads heterogamous, broadly campanulate, ±5 mm long, 8 mm across the fully radiating bracts, up to ±15 in rather congested terminal corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, closely imbricate, glossy, outer palest golden-brown or straw-coloured, inner about equalling the flowers, tips obtuse, lemon-yellow, radiating. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers 38-75, 4-13 female, 30-62 homogamous. Achenes ±1 mm long, broadly cylindric, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, scabridulous, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia.
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Perennial herb, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves 75(-90) x 5(-6) mm, narrowly lanceolate, apex long-acuminate, silvery, silky skin-like indumentum. Heads broadly campanulate in congested terminal corymbose panicles. Flowers with inner involucral bracts yellow, outer palest golden-brown or straw-coloured; February to May and August to September.
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