Stoutly branched low-growing shrub, ultimate branchlets thinly white-woolly, closely leafy throughout. Leaves spreading, later reflexed, 12-22 x 1-3 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, apiculate, base slightly narrowed, half-clasping, margins more or less revolute, upper surface glandular-puberulous, thinly greyish-white cobwebby as well, lower thickly white-woolly. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±15 mm long, double that across the radiating bracts, solitary at branchlet tips. Involucral bracts in ±10 series, graded, imbricate, inner much exceeding flowers, outer series rich glossy rose pink, outermost with a brown overcast, inner white, acuminate. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers ±350-460, 30-50 female, 325-425 homogamous. Achenes not seen, ovaries glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, barbellate above, bases not cohering.
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Shrub, up to 500 mm tall. Leaves 12-22 x 1-3 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, margins revolute, upper surface glandular-puberulous and thinly greyish white cobwebby, lower thickly white-woolly. Heads campanulate, 15 mm long, solitary at branch tips. Flowers with outer involucral bracts rich glossy rose-pink, outermost with brown overcast, inner white.
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