Perennial herb, stock slender, woody, stem solitary, erect to ±500 mm, simple, slender, white-felted. Leaves mostly radical, up to 150 x 10 mm, linear-lanceolate, thin, apex acuminate, base tapered, flat, petiole-like, upper surface scabridulous, often lightly cobwebbed, lower thinly greyish-white felted, triplinerved, side veins invisible, cauline leaves similar but sessile, broad-based, clasping, rapidly passing into distant bracts. Heads homogamous, narrowly campanulate, ±4 x 2.5 mm, many in compact cymose clusters arranged in a dense flat-topped corymbose panicle 20-30 mm across. Involucral bracts in ±4 series, graded, loosely imbricate, woolly at base, inner equalling flowers, obtuse, pellucid, light golden-brown, not radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils a little longer than the ovaries. Flowers 9-13. Achenes 0.75 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, bases cohering by patent cilia, lightly fused as well.
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