Perennial herb up to 600 mm tall, roots narrowly fusiform, stock stout, woody, stem solitary, simple, thinly white cottony, leafy at the base becoming bracteate upwards. Radical leaves up to 200 x 50 mm, including the ±70-100 mm petiole, blade elliptic, apex and base tapering, strongly triplinerved, petiole thin, wiry, base expanded, clasping, upper leaf surface harshly pubescent, lower thinly woolly; cauline leaves crowded, soon linear-lanceolate, acuminate, base broad, clasping, margins strongly revolute, harshly pubescent above, white-cobwebby below. Heads homogamous, subglobose, ±5 x 5 mm, many in a spreading flat-topped corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in 5-6 series, graded, loosely imbricate, convex, tips rounded, usually opaque creamy white, sometimes pale yellow, equalling the flowers, not radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils at least equalling the ovaries. Flowers 19-29. Achenes 0.75 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, about equalling the corolla, scabrid, bases lightly fused, also cohering by patent cilia.
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Up to 600 mm high, stock stout, woody, stem solitary, simple, thinly white-cottony. Leaves: radical leaves up to 200 x 50 mm, including thin, wiry petioles, blade elliptic, apex and base tapering, 3-nerved, upper surface harshly pubescent, lower surface thinly woolly or white-cobwebby; cauline leaves crowded, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, soon bracteate, margins strongly revolute. Capitula subglobose, ± 5 x 5 mm, many in a spreading, flat-topped, corymbose panicle; involucral bracts in 5 or 6 series, convex, apex rounded, opaque, creamy white to pale yellow. Flowers 19-29. Flowering time mainly Oct.-Feb. Pappus of many bristles, bases lightly fused.
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