Shrub up to 1 m tall and as much across, main branches bare, rough with persistent leaf bases, flowering shoots grey-felted, glandular, very closely leafy. Leaves mostly 30-50 x 7-18 mm, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, uppermost lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, apiculate, base narrowed, rounded, sessile, both surfaces silvery-grey felted, glandular as well. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±15 mm long, 25 mm across the radiating bracts, 4-20 solitary at the tips of long (50-120 mm) leafy peduncles corymbosely arranged. Involucral bracts in 6-12 series, graded, lanceolate, acute to very acute, much exceeding flowers, glossy, pale lemon-yellow. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers 465-484, 16-19 female, 446-468 homogamous, yellow. Ovary 0.75 mm long, glabrous. Achenes not seen. Pappus bristles many, about equalling the corolla, tips barbellate, shaft smooth, bases not cohering.
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