Tufted perennial herb or shrublet ±150-300 mm tall, stems glandular pubescent, closely leafy throughout. Leaves mostly 10-30 x 2-5 mm, becoming smaller and more distant upwards and passing into scale-tipped bracts, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, apex obtuse to acute, apiculate, base broad, half-clasping, both surfaces glandular-pubescent, occasionally also cobwebby below, margins and main vein greyish-white woolly or wool wanting. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±12 mm long, double that across the radiating bracts, solitary at branchlet tips. Involucral bracts in ±10 series, graded, imbricate, inner much exceeding flowers, acute, glossy white, all but innermost tipped brown, sometimes with a rosy cast. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 164-277, 10-31 female, 134-252 homogamous. Achenes 1 mm long, glabrous or hairy, not myxogenic. Pappus bristles barbellate above, bases not cohering. Flowers between September and April, at its peak between October and January.
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Perennial herb or shrub, 150-300 mm tall. Leaves 10-30 x 2-5 mm, becoming smaller and more distant upwards, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, both surfaces glandular-pubescent, sometimes also cobwebby below. Heads campanulate, 12 mm long, solitary. Flowers with involucral bracts glossy white, all but innermost tipped brown, sometimes with a rosy cast.
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