Small subshrub, stems loosely branched, young parts greyish-white or fulvous woolly-felted, closely leafy except towards the heads. Leaves spreading or reflexed, mostly 13-23 x 6-10 mm, diminishing slightly in size upwards then abruptly much reduced and distant below the heads, obovate to oblong-obovate, slightly narrowed to the base, sessile, apex rounded, mucronate, upper surface thinly greyish-white woolly, often glabrescent, lower thickly and persistently woolly. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±6 x 5 mm, ±7-22 in congested rounded terminal clusters. Involucral bracts in 4-5 series, graded, inner not quite equalling flowers, not radiating, lanceolate to oblong, straw-coloured, tips acute to rounded, whole bract thickly silky-villous dorsally. Receptacle smooth. Flowers 20-38, 6-9 female, 16-29 homogamous. Achenes ±2 mm long, barrel-shaped, ribbed, with duplex hairs, not myxogenic. Pappus bristles many, shaft barbellate, becoming shortly plumose above, bases cohering by patent cilia.
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Like H. capense but plants coarser with larger leaves, mostly 15-20 mm long and flower heads ± 6 x 5 mm.
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