Perennial herb, rootstock stout, woody, crown brown silky-woolly, flowering stems up to ±700 mm high, simple, one or several tufted together, woolly-felted, remotely leafy in lower part, remotely leafy or bracteate upwards. Leaves often only 3 or 4, ascending, up to 200 x 80 mm, broadly elliptic or ovate, apex more or less acute, base somewhat narrowed in lower leaves, broad, cordate-clasping in upper, upper surface thinly cobwebby at first, later harshly pubescent, lower greyish-white felted, faintly 5-9-nerved, reticulate. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±6 x 5 mm, many in a congested or lax corymbose cyme. Involucral bracts in ±4 series, subequal, closely imbricate, base woolly, tips glossy, subopaque, bright deep or pale pink or buff, very acute to acuminate, squarrose. Receptacle with fimbrils longer than ovaries. Flowers 25-31. Achenes ±1 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases lightly fused.
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Rootstock stout, woody, crown brown-silky woolly, flowering stems up to ± 700 mm high, simple, 1-many, woolly felted, leafy in lower part, bracteate upwards. Leaves ± 4, ascending, up to 200 x 80 mm, broadly elliptic or ovate, apex acute, base narrowed in lower leaves, broad, cordate-clasping in upper leaves, upper surface thinly cobwebby to harshly pubescent, lower surface greyish white-felted, faintly 5-9-nerved, reticulate. Capitula campanulate, 6 x 5 mm, many in a congested or lax, corymbose cyme; involucral bracts in ± 4 series, base woolly, apex glossy, pink or buff-coloured, squarrose. Flowers 25-31. Flowering time Aug.-Oct. Pappus of many bristles, bases lightly fused.
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