Perennial, base woody, stems several from the crown, decumbent then erect to ±450 mm, simple or subsimple, loosely woolly, densely leafy near the base, then distantly so, pedunculoid and bracteate under the compound inflorescences. Radical leaves up to 100 x 60 mm, obovate or broadly elliptic becoming oblong to oblong-lanceolate then linear-lanceolate upwards, apex obtuse to subacute, uppermost reduced leaves acute with a white papery appendage, base broad, clasping, both surfaces loosely greyish-white woolly. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±7 x 7 mm, many in dense terminal spherical clusters 20-50 mm across. Involucral bracts in ±10 series, graded, imbricate, inner shortly exceeding flowers, minutely radiating, obtuse or subacute, dull, creamy white. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 70-107. Achenes 0.75 mm long, barrel-shaped, ribbed, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips subplumose, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.
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Grey-woolly, somewhat tufted subshrub to 50 cm. Leaves obovate, densely woolly. Flower heads discoid, many congested in terminal clusters on peduncle-like stems, campanulate, white, ± 7 x 7 mm, inner bracts spreading above, florets 70-100, ovary glabrous.
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