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Perennial herb, up to ± 0.45 m high; rhizomatous, stems 1-3 together, erect, simple, loosely grey-cottony, densely leafy. Leaves in a basal rosette, spreading; blade of basal leaves ovate to elliptic, up to 30 x 10 mm, apex acute, base broad, half-clasping, both surfaces enveloped in silvery, silky indumentum; blade of stem leaves similar but smaller, up to 20 x 8 mm, erect, closely imbricate. Heads discoid, cylindric, 3-4 x 1.0-1.5 mm, many in congested, ± round, corymbose clusters, matted together with wool at base, these congested in a flat, corymbose cyme. Involucral bracts in ± 4 series, graded, imbricate; outer brownish; inner tipped bright canary-yellow, ± equalling florets, not radiating, translucent, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, pit margins slightly produced. Flowers: disc florets only, 5 or 6; corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, yellow; Jan.-May, Jul. Fruit with cypsela? (and ovary) glabrous. Pappus of ± 6 bristles, tips shortly plumose, bases nude, not cohering.
Shrub up to 3 m. tall, with slender flexuous branchlets tomentose when young. Lvs 1-2.5 × 1-2 cm. on flattened petioles c. 5 mm. long, sub-orbicular, entire with minute mucro, subcoriac., glab. above when mature, clad in dense soft white tomentum below. Infl. of closely clustered or solitary glomerules, each with 10-15 capitula c. 3-5 mm. diam., on very short tomentose pedicels. Phyll. in 3-4 series, oblong, lowermost tomentose without, upper scarious, brownish. Florets 10-15, ♀ very few or absent; achenes c. 0·5 mm. long, compressed, striate, linear, papillose, pubescent, areolate at base; pappus-hairs subequal, up to 5 mm. long, slightly thickened at tips.
Rhizomatous, perennial herb, stems 1-3 together, erect to ± 0.45 m high, simple, loosely grey-cottony, densely leafy. Leaves: radical leaves rosetted, spreading, up to 30 x 10 mm, base broad, half-clasping; cauline leaves similar but smaller, up to 20 x 8 mm. Capitula cylindric, 3-4 x 1.0-1.5 mm, many in congested, ± round, corymbose clusters matted together with wool at base, these congested in a flat, corymbose cyme 20-50 mm in diam.; involucral bracts in ± 4 series, graded, outer brownish, inner tipped bright canary-yellow, ± translucent. Flowers yellow. Flowering time Feb.-May. Pappus of ± 6 bristles, not cohering.
Perennial herb, up to 450 mm tall. Leaves lanceolate, apex acute to very acute, closely imbricate, both surfaces enveloped in silky often stringy indumentum. Heads cylindric, many in congested roundish, corymbose clusters, these in turn congested in flattish corymbose cyme. Flowers yellow; outer involucral bracts brownish, inner tipped canary-yellow.
