Perennial herb, stock woody, crowned with several leaf rosettes, flowering stems lateral, decumbent, up to 450 mm long, loosely branched, loosely woolly, leafy. Radical leaves ±30-50 x 2-4 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, apex acute or subacute, mucronate, base broad, papery, clasping, purplish when young, both surfaces grey-woolly; cauline leaves ±10-20 x 2-3 mm, oblong-lanceolate, acute, mucronate, base slightly narrowed, half-clasping, both surfaces loosely woolly, glandular-setose, wool glabrescent. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, 10 mm long, about twice that across the radiating bracts, solitary at the branch tips, the whole forming a very open corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in ±10 series, loosely imbricate, much exceeding the flowers, glossy, acute, white, tipped crimson. Flowers ±120-230, 18-32 female, 118-195 homogamous, yellow, sometimes tipped crimson. Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles several, barbellate above, nude below, bases not cohering.
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