Shrubby, stems possibly up to 450 mm long, stout (8 mm diam. near base), woody, erect or decumbent, loosely branched, upper parts thickly white-woolly, closely leafy. Leaves 25-50 x 10-35 mm, sometimes smaller and distant below the heads, ovate or elliptic-ovate, abruptly contracted to a broad flat petiolar part roughly 1/3 the total leaf length, base auriculate, clasping, apex subacute to obtuse, mucronate, upper surface thinly woolly, lower thickly so. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±5 x 4 mm, double that across the radiating bracts, many in compact clusters corymbosely arranged at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, subequal, slightly exceeding flowers, very loosely imbricate, outer acute, inner obtuse, slightly crisped, semi-opaque, glossy, pale straw-yellow. Receptacle with fimbrils about equalling ovaries. Flowers 14-26, yellow. Achenes 1 mm long, cylindric, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles shorter than corolla, scabrid, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia.
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Erect or decumbent shrub, up to 450 mm tall. Leaves 25-50 x 10-35 mm, ovate or elliptic-ovate, abruptly contracted to broad, flat petiolar part, base auriculate, upper surface thinly woolly, lower thickly so. Heads campanulate, many in compact clusters corymbosely arranged. Involucral bracts glossy. Flowers yellow; involucral bracts pale straw-yellow.
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