Well-branched shrublet, branches short or elongate and then decumbent and shooting at the nodes or tips, white-felted when young, closely leafy. Leaves mostly 2-6(-8) x 0.5-1 mm, diminishing slightly upwards, appressed, later spreading, ascending, linear or linear-lanceolate, apex acute, mucronate, slightly hooked, base broad, clasping, margins strongly revolute, white-woolly below, thinly woolly above, soon glabrescent. Heads heterogamous or rarely homogamous, campanulate, ±5 x 4 mm, solitary or up to 12 corymbosely arranged at the branch tips, subsessile or rarely peduncles reaching 8 mm. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, semi-pellucid, tawny, tips obtuse or subacute, somewhat crisped, scarcely radiating, backs thinly woolly with orange or red gland dots. Receptacle with fimbrils about equalling ovaries. Flowers 16-29, (0-)1-6 female, 13-28 homogamous, staminodes sometimes present. Achenes not seen, ovaries glabrous. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, barbellate, tips barbellate to subplumose, bases cohering by patent cilia.
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Straggling shrublet to 50 cm, white-felted on young parts. Leaves ascending, later recurved, linear, revolute, mucronate, glabrescent above, white-woolly beneath. Flower heads disciform, sometimes discoid, 1-12 at branch tips, campanulate, tawny, ± 5 x 4 mm, florets 15-30, ovary glabrous.
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