Shrub up to 1 m tall, branches brittle, glandular-setose, thinly white-woolly as well when young, wool often persisting under the heads, leafy. Leaves mostly (15-)20-25 x 6-12 mm, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, apiculate, base broad, half-clasping, both surfaces greyish-white woolly, wool persistent on sterile twigs, shed on flowering twigs to reveal the glandular-setose surface. Heads heterogamous, ±15 mm long, ±32 mm across the radiating bracts, depressed-globose, solitary or few at the tips of the lateral flowering twigs. Involucral bracts in ±9 series, graded, imbricate, much exceeding the flowers, glossy, light brown. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers ±600-700, 30-60 female, 570-650 homogamous. Achenes 1.25 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles equalling corolla, tip barbellate, shaft scabrid, base smooth.
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Shrub, up to 1 m high. Leaves 20-25 x 6-12 mm, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, both surfaces greyish white woolly, persistent on sterile twigs, shed on flowering twigs to reveal glandular-setose surface. Heads 15 mm long, depressed-globose, solitary or a few at tips of lateral flowering twigs. Flowers with light brown involucral bracts.