Rounded, stiff, twiggy, divaricately branched shrublet up to 300 mm tall, old twigs bare, reddish brown, subspinescent, young twigs glandular-pubescent, distantly leafy. Leaves 4-10 x 0.75-1 mm, linear, sessile, acute, apiculate, hooked, margins revolute, both surfaces thickly and loosely greyish-white woolly when very young, later only glandular-pubescent with some woolly hairs clinging particularly in the leaf axils and on the lower surface. Heads heterogamous, ±4.5 x 3 mm, turbinate-campanulate, solitary at the tips of the twigs, surrounded by reduced leaves. Involucral bracts in 4-6 series, outermost short, glandular-pubescent below, thinly woolly, inner subequal, lanceolate, acuminate, about equalling flowers, erect, pellucid, glossy, purplish, tips golden-brown. Receptacle flat, honeycombed. Flowers 19-29, 7-13 female, 11-16 homogamous. Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases nude, not cohering.
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Twiggy, divaricately branched shrublet, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves linear, apiculate-hooked, 4-10 x 0.75-1 mm, thickly grey-woolly when young, later mostly glandular-hairy, mostly margins revolute. Flowerheads solitary among reduced leaves, disciform, turbinate-campanulate, ± 4.5 mm long, bracts 4-6-seriate, acuminate, purplish with golden-brown tips, florets 20-30.
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