Suffrutex, main stems up to 450 mm long or straggling to greater lengths, branching, prostrate, rooting at intervals, flowering branchlets erect, all closely leafy throughout. Leaves imbricate, 11-30 x 2-6 mm, scarcely diminishing in length upwards but often narrower, oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, lower half appressed, webbed to stem, upper half flat, spreading, often somewhat recurved, tip more or less acute, mucronate, hooked, both surfaces enveloped in silky silvery 'tissue-paper' indumentum. Heads heterogamous, turbinate, 25-40 mm long, nearly double that across the radiating bracts, solitary at the tips of the branchlets, closely surrounded by leaves. Involucral bracts in ±7 series, loosely imbricate, graded, inner much exceeding flowers, linear-lanceolate, acute, glossy white, outer ovate-acuminate, golden-brown sometimes with a rosy-crimson overcast. Receptacle very shortly honeycombed. Flowers 94-246, 17-44 female, 77-204 homogamous. Achenes 1 mm long, cylindric, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips barbellate, shaft scabrid, bases lightly fused.
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Straggling, closely leafy, silvery shrublet to 50 cm. Leaves imbricate, spreading or recurved above, oblong, folded, hooked, silvery silky with tissue paper-like hairs. Flower heads disciform, terminal, solitary and tips nested in leaves, top-shaped, shiny white often flushed pink and brown, glabrous, 25-40 × ± 40 mm, florets ± 100-250, ovary papillate-hairy.
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