Perennial rosette herb, the flowering stems to 65 cm high; stems pale tomentose, with porrect leaves.. Leaves of two kinds: rosette leaves narrowly obovate or spatulate, 3–10 cm long, 1.2–2(–3) cm wide, base semi-amplexicaul, margins entire, apex obtuse or acute and mucronate, thinly pubescent but glabrescent above, pale-tomentose beneath; stem leaves lanceolate to linear, 2–5.5 cm long, 0.3–0.8 cm wide, otherwise similar to rosette leaves, with a dense group of leaves just below the inflorescence.. Capitula 10–12 mm long, heterogamous, in dense almost sessile clusters of 2–3 often subtended by a few closely set leaves, these clusters solitary or in turn united into leafy corymbs; stalks of individual capitula up to 2 mm long; phyllaries silvery white, multiseriate, ovate to lanceolate, 3–10 mm long, margins entire or dentate, acute, glabrous or hairy and glandular on the stereome; receptacle honeycombed.. Florets yellow, many (several hundred); outer florets many (Lisowski states up to 265), tube filiform from a slightly widened base, 2.5–2.7 mm long, lobes ± 0.2 mm long, style 2.7–3 mm long; inner florets many (Lisowski states 130), tube cylindrical, 2.3–3 mm long, lobes 0.3–0.4 mm long and glandular, anthers 1.4–1.5 mm long, style 2.4 mm long.. Achenes ellipsoid, 0.8–1 mm long, glabrous; pappus white, 2.5–3 mm long, not subplumose, caducous individually.
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