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Dwarf shrub, up to 150 mm high; main stem 5-50 mm long, bare, woody; branches intricate, spreading, forming a dense cushion up to 150 x 300 mm, white-silky or woolly felted, leafy. Leaves: blade oblong-obovate to suborbicular, 4-10 x 2-5 mm, narrowed below, ± clasping, apex subacute, recurved, margins undulate, both surfaces densely white-woolly felted. Heads disciform, rarely discoid, campanulate, 4 x 4 mm, solitary or few clustered terminally, closely surrounded by leaves. Involucral bracts in 3 or 4 series, subequal, loosely imbricate, ± equalling florets, not radiating, tips obtuse, often emarginate, golden-brown to buff-coloured or whitish, often red-purple above stereome; outer webbed to surrounding leaves, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, nearly smooth. Flowers: female and/or only disc florets 1242, 0-9 female; corolla of disc florets funnel-shaped, yellow; Oct. Fruit with cypsela? (and ovary) hairy or rarely glabrous. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases with patent cilia, not cohering.
Shrublet, main stem 5-50 mm long, bare, woody. Branches forming a dense cushion up to 150 x 300 mm, white-silky or woolly-felted, leafy. Leaves 4-10 x 2-5 mm, oblong-lanceolate to suborbicular, narrowed below, ± clasping, apex recurved. Capitula campanulate, 4 x 4 mm, solitary or few clustered terminally; involucral bracts in 3 or 4 series, not radiating, obtuse, golden-brown to whitish or red-purple, outer bracts webbed to surrounding leaves. Receptacle ± smooth. Flowers 12-42. Flowering time all year, mainly Sept. Pappus of many bristles, bases with patent cilia, not cohering. Cypselae hairy or glabrous.
Gnarled, cushion-forming, dwarf shrublet, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves oblong to suborbicular, undulate, apex recurved, mostly 4-10 x 2-5 mm, densely white-felted. Flowerheads solitary or few nested among leaves, disciform (rarely discoid), campanulate, ± 4 mm long, bracts 3-or 4-seriate, obtuse, whitish to brown or reddish, florets 12-40.
