Shrublet or shrub, 0.1–1 m high, and often wider than high, forming a rounded bush; branches erect or prostrate (see note), tomentellous but glabrescent, densely leafy.. Leaves silver-grey or grey-green, spreading or recurved, sessile, linear or narrowly elliptic, 6–22 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, base half-clasping, margins recurved, apex obtuse and mucronate, white-tomentose on both surfaces.. Capitula 15–25 mm long, heterogamous, solitary and terminal on branches; stalks of individual capitula very short; phyllaries multiseriate, silvery white and shiny, the outermost often faintly yellow or brown and sometimes (especially towards the top of the altitude range) with a pink flush proximally, ovate to lanceolate to linear, 5–16 mm long, acute, stereome pilose; receptacle honeycombed.. Florets yellow, many (hundreds); outer florets many, tube cylindrical, 3.6–4 mm long, lobes erect, 0.4–0.5 mm long and glandular, style 4.3–4.7 mm long; inner florets few (≤10), tube narrowly infundibuliform, 4.3–4.7 mm long, lobes erect, 0.4–0.6 mm long, anthers 2.2–2.3 mm long, style 5–5.5 mm long.. Achenes cylindrical, 0.7–1.2 mm long, glabrous; pappus cream, 4.3–5.5 mm long, caducous in groups.. Fig. 86/2 (page 406), habit.
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