Compact well-branched dwarf shrub, rounded in outline or depressed, old branches bare, gnarled, young ones densely tufted, closely leafy. Leaves appearing rosetted when viewed from above, up to 10(-20) x 6(-10) mm, ovate to elliptic, narrowed to a broad, flat, clasping, petiole-like base up to ±8(-10) mm long, apex obtuse, upper surface greyish, lower white, woolly-felted, triplinerved, nerves not or scarcely visible. Heads homogamous, campanulate, very variable in size, mostly 5-8 mm long, 8-16 mm across the radiating bracts, larger heads solitary or few at the branchlet tips, smaller in several-headed corymbose clusters. Involucral bracts in ±9 series, graded, imbricate, outer pale golden-brown or pinkish, bases webbed together with wool, inner much exceeding flowers, tips opaque milk-white. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers 19-145 yellow, often tinged red. Achenes ±1.25 mm long, elliptic, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, scabrid, tips barbellate, bases not cohering.
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Compact, well-branched, dwarf shrub, old branches bare, younger closely leafy. Leaves up to 20 x 10 mm, ovate to elliptic, petiole-like base up to 10 mm long, upper surface grey, lower surface white, woolly-felted. Capitula homogamous, campanulate, 5-8 mm long, solitary or few terminally, or in several-headed, corymbose clusters; involucral bracts in 9 series, radiating, outer pale golden-brown or ± pink, bases webbed together with wool, inner milk-white. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers 19-145, yellow, often tinged red. Flowering time July-Sept. Pappus of scabrid bristles, apex barbellate, bases not cohering. Cypselae 1.25 mm long, elliptic, hairy.
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