Shrubby from a stout woody caudex, up to 600 mm tall, branches long, slender, closely white-felted, young ones leafy. Leaves mostly 12-20 x 2-3 mm, diminishing upwards, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, apex acute, mucronate, base subauriculate, sessile, both surfaces white-felted, minutely glandular. Heads homogamous, turbinate, 5 x 5 mm, few too many crowded in terminal corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 4 series, graded, imbricate, outer lanceolate, inner oblong, obtuse, apiculate, about equalling the flowers, not radiating, all greyish-white woolly dorsally, only the extreme tip glabrous. Receptacle smooth. Flowers 19-34, yellow. Achenes not seen, ovaries with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, tips subplumose or barbellate, bases nude, not cohering.
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Erect or straggling, grey-woolly shrublet or subshrub to 60 cm. Leaves linear-lanceolate, white-felted. Flower heads discoid, several in compact, terminal corymbs, campanulate, ± 5 x 5 mm, bracts narrow, entirely grey-felted, florets 20-35, ovary hairy.
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