A well-branched spreading subshrub up to 1 m tall, branches long, often decumbent at the base then erect, thinly greyish-white woolly, densely leafy, becoming pedunculoid upwards. Leaves very variable, mostly 8-15(-45) x 2-4(-15) mm, becoming smaller and more distant upwards, elliptic-oblong or linear-oblong, apex acute, sometimes acuminate, mucronate, slightly narrowed to a half-clasping, subdecurrent base, margins flat or subrevolute, upper surface clothed in thin silvery grey sericeous indumentum that will strip like a skin (and sometimes does), rarely woolly-felted, lower surface closely white-woolly. Heads heterogamous or sometimes homogamous, cylindric, mostly ±3 x 1 mm, sometimes up to 4.5 x 3 mm, many in compact cymes corymbose-paniculately arranged at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in ±4 series, graded, closely imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, not radiating, translucent, glossy, bright canary-yellow, tips generally smooth. Receptacle with fimbrils exceeding the ovaries. Flowers 6-12(-20), 0-4 female, 3-12(-20) homogamous, yellow. Achenes 0.75 mm, broadly cylindric, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.
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Spreading subshrub, up to 1 m high, branches long, ± decumbent at base, then erect, thinly greyish white-woolly, densely leafy. Leaves very variable, 8-45 x 2-15 mm, smaller, fewer upwards, apex acute, mucronate, half-clasping, base subdecurrent, margins ± flat, lower surface closely white-woolly. Capitula mostly heterogamous, cylindric, ± 3 x 1 mm, many in compact cymes; involucral bracts in ± 4 series, graded, translucent, glossy, bright yellow. Receptacle fimbrils exceeding ovaries. Flowers 6-20, yellow. Flowering time Sept.-Apr. Pappus of many bristles. Cypselae 0.75 mm long, broadly cylindric.
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