Bushy half-shrub ±50-300 mm high, woody at the base and much branched there, branches intricate or more lax, erect or spreading, young parts thinly grey-woolly, leafy, often with dwarf axillary shoots. Leaves mostly 5-30(-40) x 1-5 mm, diminishing slightly upwards, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or subspathulate, apex acute to obtuse, apiculate, base broad, half-clasping, often subauriculate, margins flat or undulate, both surfaces thinly greyish-white woolly, sometimes glabrescent with age. Heads heterogamous, rarely homogamous, cylindric-campanulate, ±4-5 x 2.5-3 mm, few clustered at the tips of the branchlets, these in turn corymbose-paniculately arranged. Involucral bracts in ±7 series, graded, loosely imbricate, outer membranous, backs woolly, tips glabrous, acute, golden-brown or rufous, squarrose, inner with tips slightly exceeding the flowers, these somewhat concave, acute to obtuse, mostly opaque , white, creamy or yellow, very rarely pinkish, minutely radiating. Receptacle nearly smooth to shortly honeycombed. Flowers (10-)16-33, (0-)1-4 female, 13-30 homogamous. Achenes not seen, ovaries usually with myxogenic duplex hairs, sometimes glabrous, very rarely female hairy, homogamous glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases not cohering.
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Bushy, grey-woolly subshrub, up to 300 mm tall, often with short-shoots. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, flat or undulate, mostly 5-30x 1-5 mm, grey-woolly. Flowerheads clustered in branched corymbs, disciform, rarely discoid, cylindric-campanulate, ± 4-5 mm long, bracts ± 7-seriate, acute to obtuse and apically cucullate, spreading, golden-brown but inner tipped yellow, white or red, florets ± 15-30.
Bushy, grey-woolly shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, grey-woolly. Flower heads disciform sometimes discoid, clustered in branched corymbs, cylindric-campanulate, golden-brown, ± 4-5 x 2.5-3.0 mm, involucral bracts sharply spreading above, inner tipped white, tips ± 1 mm long, florets ± 15-30, ovary papillate-hairy sometimes glabrous.
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