Well-branched rounded dwarf shrublet up to 200 mm high and 300 mm across, main stem very short, gnarled, woody, up to 5 mm diam., branches slender (±1 mm diam.), nude below and rooting, closely leafy above. Leaves closely imbricate, visible part suborbicular, ±5 x 5 mm, thick, greyish-white woolly, base oblong, slightly shorter and narrower than blade, membranous, nearly glabrous, stem-clasping. Heads homogamous, campanulate, 10-13 mm long, ±20 mm across the fully radiating bracts, solitary on terminal leafy peduncles, these leaves spathulate to elliptic, the uppermost sometimes with a scarious appendage. Involucral bracts in ±11 series, descending on the peduncle, graded, loosely imbricate, outer palest brown, inner exceeding the flowers, obtuse, opaque, white, all tinged crimson at the base, giving a rosy cast to the whole head. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 45-81, yellow. Achenes 1.25 mm long, with long (up to 0.5 mm) duplex hairs. Pappus bristles ±12-14, about equalling corolla, tips shortly plumose, bases not cohering.
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Rounded, dwarf shrublet, up to 200 mm high and 300 mm in diam., branches slender, nude below and rooting, closely leafy above. Leaves imbricate, visible part suborbicular, 5 x 5 mm, dense, thick, greyish white-woolly. Capitula campanulate, 10-13 mm long, 20 mm in diam., solitary on terminal, leafy peduncles; involucral bracts in ± 11 series, graded, outer pale brown, inner opaque, white, all tinged crimson at base. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 45-81, yellow. Flowering time Nov.-Jan. Pappus of ± 12-14 bristles, apex shortly plumose, bases not cohering. Cypselae 1.25 mm long, hairy.
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