Perennial herb, stock slender, woody, flowering stems several from the crown, simple, erect to ±300 mm, loosely greyish-white woolly, leafy throughout. Radical leaves rosetted, up to ±90 x 7 mm, linear-lanceolate, apex very acute, base broad, clasping, upper surface thinly pilose with coarse jointed hairs, lower greyish-white woolly; cauline leaves similar but smaller and thinly woolly above at first, passing upwards into bracts, the uppermost with a small scarious appendage, erect, imbricate, very shortly decurrent. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±5 mm long, several in a tight subglobose cluster up to 20 mm across webbed at base with wool. Involucral bracts in ±6 series, slightly graded, loosely imbricate, exceeding the flowers, radiating, glossy, inner tawny yellow, obtuse, apiculate, outer acute, tipped brown. Receptacle with fimbrils at least equalling the ovaries. Flowers ±33. Achenes not seen, ovaries glabrous. Pappus bristles many, about equalling the corolla, tips barbellate, bases not cohering (but material young).
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