Bushy half shrub, sprawling or erect to ±1-3 m, branches long and slender, greyish-white woolly-felted, closely leafy, leaves more distant on flowering twigs, all but the reduced leaves spreading, reflexed with age. Leaves 18-60 x 2-6 mm, reduced leaves below flowering heads ±8-15 x 1-2 mm, linear, acute, mucronate, passing into lanceolate, acuminate, scale-tipped bracts, base broad, half-clasping, margins more or less revolute, upper surface cobwebby at first, glabrescent, rugose, gland-dotted, lower surface greyish-white woolly-felted. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±4 x 3 mm, many in congested glomerules 15-25 mm across at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, imbricate, outer shorter, inner subequal, equalling flowers, tips subacute or obtuse, somewhat erose and crisped, recurved but scarcely radiating, translucent, pale golden-brown. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 21-31, 2-7 female, 18-27 homogamous, bright yellow. Achenes 1 mm long, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.
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Bushy subshrub, sprawling or erect, up to 1-3 m high, branches greyish white-woolly felted, closely leafy, leaves spreading, later reflexed. Leaves linear, acute, mucronate, base broad, ± clasping, upper surface cobwebby, glabrescent, rugose, glandular, lower surface greyish white-woolly felted, fewer and smaller upwards. Capitula heterogamous, campanulate, ± 4 x 3 mm, clusters 15-25 mm in diam.; involucral bracts in± 5 series, outer shorter, inner subequal, equalling flowers, apex subacute or obtuse, recurved, translucent, pale golden-brown. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 21-31, bright yellow. Flowering time Oct., Nov. Pappus of many bristles, equalling corolla. Cypselae 1 mm long.
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