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Dwarf shrub, up to 150 mm high; mat-forming, stems stiff, diffuse to erect, closely leafy, thinly white-woolly, often with axillary shoots. Leaves: blade linear, (4-)14 x (0.5-)2.0 mm, apex subacute, margins strongly revolute, base broad, upper surface thinly and loosely woolly, lower white-woolly. Heads disciform, 3.5-4.0(-5.0) x 2-3(-4) mm, campanulate, 2-5, rarely more, clustered at tips of branchlets. Involucral bracts in ± 4 series, graded, closely imbricate, inner ± equalling florets, tips obtuse, crisped, whitish, straw-coloured, tawny or sometimes reddish; not radiating, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, shortly toothed. Flowers: female and disc florets 18-36, 5-10 female; corolla of disc florets campanulate above, yellow; Oct.-Mar. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) hairy. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases cohering by patent cilia.
Mat-forming subshrub, branches stiff, diffuse or erect, up to ± 0.15 m high, thinly white-woolly, closely leafy, often with dwarf axillary shoots. Leaves up to 14 x 2 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, apex subacute, base broad, upper surface thinly and loosely woolly, lower surface white-woolly. Capitula heterogamous, campanulate, 3.5-5.0 x 2-4 mm, 2-5 clustered terminally; involucral bracts in ± 4 series, graded, apex obtuse, pellucid, whitish, straw-coloured to ± tawny. Receptacle shortly toothed. Flowers 18-36. Flowering time Sept.-Feb. Pappus of many bristles, ± equalling corolla. Cypselae ± 1 mm long.
Dwarf, twiggy, mat-forming subshrub, up to 150 mm tall, often with short-shoots. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, strongly revolute, mostly 4-14 x 0.5-2 mm. Flowerheads few at branch tips, disciform, campanulate, 3.5-6 mm long, bracts ± 4-seriate, obtuse, crisped, straw-coloured or reddish brown, florets 20-40.
Matforming shrub. Leaves (4-)14 x (0.5-)2.0 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, margins strongly revolute, base broad, upper surface thinly and loosely woolly, lower white-woolly. Heads campanulate, clustered at tips of branchlets. Flowers with involucral bracts whitish, straw-coloured, tawny or sometimes reddish.
