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Perennial herb, up to 400 mm high; tufted, stems many, erect or ascending, simple or branched from base, greyish white-woolly, closely leafy. Leaves: blade linear or linear-oblong, up to 30 x 4 mm, apex acute, mucronate, base broad, half-clasping; both surfaces greyish white-woolly. Heads disciform, campanulate, ± 5 x 5 mm, many in congested, terminal, rounded, corymbose clusters. Involucral bracts in ± 7 series, 4 inner subequal, loosely imbricate, tips slightly exceeding florets, obtuse, crisped, yellow, slightly radiating; outer tipped pale golden-brown, bases woolly, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, minutely tuberculate. Flowers: female and disc florets 112-156, 54-81 female; corolla of disc florets narrowly campanulate above, yellow; Sep.-Mar. Fruit with cypsela? (and ovary) hairy. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases cohering by patent cilia.
Tufted, perennial herb, stock rhizomatous. Stems many, erect or ascending, up to 400 mm long, simple or branched from base, greyish white-woolly, closely leafy. Leaves up to 30 x 4 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, base ± clasping, both sides greyish-white, woolly. Capitula campanulate, 5 mm long, many in dense, terminal, corymbose clusters; involucral bracts in 7 series, inner bright yellow, crisped, outer tipped pale golden-brown, bases woolly. Receptacle minutely tuberculate. Flowers 112-156. Flowering time Nov.-Jan. Pappus of many bristles. Cypselae hairy.
Perennial herb, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves 30 x 4 mm, but often only 15 x 2 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, apex acute, both surfaces greyish white woolly. Heads campanulate, 5 mm long, many in congested terminal rounded corymbose clusters. Flowers with involucral bracts yellow, outer tipped pale golden-brown.
