Dwarf shrub, main stems up to 10 mm diam., woody, gnarled, lateral branches prostrate, spreading, intricately branched, ultimate branchlets erect to ±30 mm, densely leafy. Leaves spreading, mostly 5-15 x 0.75-1(-2) mm, linear, apex subacute, base broad, clasping, both surfaces enveloped in thick silvery grey, closely woven, slightly glossy, skin-like indumentum. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±4 x 4 mm, up to 10 in a tight globose cluster surrounded by a few linear bracts, the heads more or less free from each other, each cluster at the tip of an erect terminal remotely leafy silky-felted peduncle 10-50 mm tall. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, imbricate, about equalling flowers, tawny or straw-coloured, tips obtuse or subacute, crisped, minutely radiating. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 15-36. Achenes not seen, ovaries glabrous. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, tips barbellate, bases nude, not cohering.
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Dwarf shrub, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves 5-15 x 0.75-l,00(-2.00) mm, linear, base broad, clasping, both surfaces enveloped in thick silvery grey, closely woven indumentum. Heads campanulate, up to 25 cm a tight globose cluster, heads free from each other. Flowers with tawny or straw-coloured involucral bracts.
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