Bushy perennial herb or subshrub ±600 mm tall, much branched from the base, branches long, thin, brittle, thinly white-woolly, closely leafy. Leaves mostly 15-20 x 2-2.5 mm, diminishing upwards and becoming more distant below the heads, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, base broad, half-clasping, eared, margins more or less revolute, upper surface cobwebby-woolly, lower more densely so. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, 3 x 1.5-2 mm, many in compact corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 5 series, graded, imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, light straw colour, tips obtuse, semi-pellucid, crisped, minutely radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils much exceeding ovaries. Flowers 13-25, 9-17 female, 3-8 homogamous. Achenes 0.75 mm long, cylindric, obscurely ribbed, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabridulous, bases cohering by patent cilia.
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Perennial herb or shrub, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves 15-20 x 2.0-2.5 mm, linear-lanceolate, base broad, half-clasping, eared, margins revolute, upper surface cobwebby-woolly, lower more densely so. Heads campanulate, many in compact corymbose panicles. Flowers with light straw-coloured involucral bracts.
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