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Dwarf shrub, 0.5-0.6 m high; gnarled, branched or lax with spreading branches, twigs ± tomentose, closely leafy. Leaves: blade obovate, 3-12 x 2-5 mm, thick, apex obtuse, tip recurved-mucronate, base narrowed, petiole-like in larger leaves, margins ± crisped-undulate; both sides ± greyish white-woolly. Heads discoid, cylindric, 5-7 x 2-4 mm, 2-many clustered terminally, surrounded by leaves. Involucral bracts in 4 series, graded, imbricate; outer ± webbed to 1 or 2 upper leaves, inner ± equalling florets, all subpellucid, pale yellow or straw-coloured, sometimes ± red below, glossy, oblong, tips obtuse, ± concave, not radiating, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, scarcely honeycombed. Flowers: disc florets only, 9-18; corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, yellow; Oct.-Mar. Fruit with cypsela? (and ovary) hairy. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.
Dwarf, gnarled, branched shrub, 0.5-0.6 m high, or lax with spreading branches, twigs ± tomentose, closely leafy. Leaves 3-12 x 2-5 mm, thick, obovate, obtuse, tip recurved-mucronate, base narrowed, margins ± crisped-undulate, both sides ± greyish white-woolly. Capitula cylindric, 5-7 x 2-4 mm, 2-several clustered terminally; involucral bracts in 4 series, graded, outer ± webbed to 1 or 2 upper leaves, all subpellucid, pale yellow or straw-coloured, sometimes ± red below, glossy, oblong, obtuse, ± concave. Receptacle ± honeycombed. Flowers 9-18. Flowering time Sept.-May. Pappus of many bristles, equalling corolla, bases cohering by patent cilia.
Dwarf, gnarled, intricately branched or more lax shrublet, up to 600 mm tall. Leaves thick, obovate, apex recurved and hooked, crisped-undulate, mostly 3-12 x 2-5 mm, thinly greyish-woolly. Flowerheads 2-several in small clusters nested among leaves, discoid, cylindric, 5-7 mm long, bracts 4-seriate, caducous, oblong, obtuse, pale yellow or straw-coloured, florets 9-18.
