Shrubby, much-branched perennial, either sprawling or forming a dense rounded bush or mat, main stems 3-5 mm diam., branches up to 450 mm long, old parts becoming nude, young branches grey-woolly-felted, closely leafy throughout. Leaves spreading, eventually reflexed, 4-10 x 1 mm, linear-lanceolate, apex obtuse, base slightly broadened, half-clasping, margins strongly revolute, upper surface thinly woolly, lower surface scarcely visible, greyish-white woolly-felted. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±4 x 3 mm, ±10-15 in dense glomerules 10 mm across at the branch tips, soon overtopped by young growth. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, soon caducous, imbricate, graded, outermost reduced, acute, webbed together and to adjoining heads, innermost about equalling flowers, not radiating, glabrous, very obtuse, erose, somewhat concave, translucent, pale golden-brown. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers ±15-23. Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles very many, scabrid, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia.
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Shrubby, much-branched perennial, sprawling or a dense, rounded bush or mat, branches up to 0.45 m long, young branches grey-woolly felted, closely leafy. Leaves spreading, later reflexed, 4-10 x 1 mm, linear-lanceolate, apex obtuse, base half-clasping, margins revolute, both sides ± woolly. Capitula campanulate, 10-15 in dense, terminal glomerules 10 mm in diam., topped by young growth; involucral bracts in ± 5 series, graded, outer reduced, acute, webbed together and to adjoining capitula, inner glabrous, very obtuse, erose, translucent, pale golden-brown. Receptacle ± honeycombed. Flowers ± 15-23. Flowering time Sept. Pappus of many bristles, bases ± cohering by patent cilia.
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