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Perennial herb; flowering stem up to 500 mm high, terminal, solitary, loosely woolly, leafy. Leaves: blade of basal leaves oblong to elliptic-obovate, up to 200 x 20 mm, commonly < 100 x 20 mm, loosely woolly cobwebby, upper surface sometimes glabrescent, lower surface persistent woolly, 3-or 5-nerved; blade of stem leaves similar but narrower and smaller. Heads disciform or rarely discoid, campanulate, 25-30 x ± 50 mm, solitary. Involucral bracts in ± 10 series, graded, loosely imbricate, much exceeding florets, glossy, white to deep rosy pink, radiating, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, shortly honeycombed. Flowers: female and/or only disc florets 231-407, 0-13 female; corolla of disc florets narrowly funnel-shaped, pink; Oct.-Jan. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) hairy. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases cohering by patent cilia, some fusion in bundles also.
Stock stout, woody, flowering stem terminal, solitary, up to 500 mm high, loosely woolly, leafy. Leaves: radical leaves up to 200 mm long, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-obovate, upper surface sometimes glabrescent, lower surface usually persistently woolly, margins always so; cauline leaves similar, narrower and smaller upwards. Capitula mostly heterogamous, campanulate, 50-60 mm in diam., solitary; involucral bracts in ± 10 series, graded, white to deep pink. Flowers 231-407. Flowering time Sept.-Dec. Pappus of many bristles, apex barbellate, bases cohering by patent cilia, some fusion as well. Cypselae 1.75 mm long, barrel-shaped, hairy.
Perennial herb, up to 500 mm tall. Radical leaves up to 200 x 20 mm, commonly less than 100 x 20 mm, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-obovate, loosely woolly cobwebby, upper surface sometimes glabrescent; cauline leaves similar but narrower and smaller. Heads campanulate, 25-30 mm long, solitary. Flowers with white to deep rosy pink involucral bracts.
