Perennial herb with tufts of soft-wooded simple or branched stems up to 600 mm long, 4 mm diam., erect or spreading from the crown, rooting at nodes, tips ascending, white silky-woolly, closely leafy. Leaves often with dwarf axillary branchlets, primary leaves up to 35 x 12 mm, diminishing upwards, spathulate to oblong-obovate, apex obtuse to subacute, apiculate, base broad, half-clasping, soft-textured, both surfaces white silky-woolly. Heads homogamous or rarely heterogamous, campanulate, ±3-6 x 3.5-5 mm, many in dense terminal corymbose clusters arranged in compact corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in ±7 series, outermost short, thinly woolly, others subequal, loosely imbricate, about equalling the flowers, not radiating, obovate, tips almost truncate, markedly crisped-undulate, opaque creamy white. Receptacle scarcely honeycombed. Flowers 12-50, very rarely 3-4 female. Achenes 0.75 mm long, glabrous or with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, scabrid, bases with patent cilia, not cohering.
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Rounded, white-woolly subshrub to 50 cm. Leaves obovate, thickly woolly. Flower heads discoid sometimes disciform, many congested in terminal clusters, campanulate, white, 3-6 x 3.5-4.0 mm, inner bracts spreading above, florets 10-50, ovary glabrous or papillate-hairy.
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