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Perennial herb, up to 0.5 m high; rootstock woody, silky-brown wool in axils of leaf bases; stem solitary, simple, erect, white-woolly, leafy below, bracteate upwards. Leaves mostly basal with blade elliptic, up to 130 x 40 mm, apex acute, tapering to petiole-like base, broad, flat, clasping, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with a white silky-woolly, felted indumentum; stem leaves similar but soon sessile, bracteate. Heads discoid, campanulate, ± 7.5 x 7 mm, many in compact or loose, terminal, corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in ± 5 series, graded, inner ± equalling florets, loosely imbricate, oblong, woolly below, tips subacute, reddish brown, crisped, not radiating, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, with fimbrils exceeding ovaries. Flowers: disc florets only, 30-65; corolla campanulate above, whitish; Jan., Feb. Fruit with cypsela? (and ovary) glabrous. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases lightly fused.
Rootstock woody, silky-brown wool in axils of leaf bases, stem solitary, simple, erect, up to ± 500 mm long, white-woolly, leafy below, bracteate upwards. Leaves mostly radical, up to 130 x 40 mm, elliptic, apex acute, petiole-like base broad, flat, clasping, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with a white-silky, woolly, felted indumentum; cauline leaves similar but soon sessile, bracteate. Capitula campanulate, ± 7.5 x 7 mm; involucral bracts in ± 5 series, woolly below, apex red-brown, crisped, not radiating. Flowers 30-65. Flowering time Nov.-Feb. Pappus of many bristles, bases lightly fused.
Subshrub with erect, peduncle-like stem to 50 cm from a woody rootstock, felted above. Leaves mostly radical, oblanceolate, glabrescent above, felted beneath, 5-9-net-veined from base. Flower heads discoid, many in a branched corymb, campanulate, brownish, ± 7 x 7 mm, florets 30-60, ovary glabrous.
