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Dwarf shrub, up to 0.6 m high and in diameter; lax or dense, twiggy, covered with silver-grey indumentum with tissue paper-like surface, woolly when old, ± viscid, branches very leafy. Leaves very variable; blade linear, oblong, narrowly obovate to spathulate, 6-30 x 1-6 mm, often folded lengthwise, apex subacute, mucronate, often recurved, base shortly decurrent, indumentum as for stems. Heads disciform, rarely discoid, cylindric, ± 3-4 x 1.5-2.5 mm, many in clusters crowded in terminal, corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 4 series, graded, inner equalling florets, imbricate, ovate, acute, pellucid, glossy, lemon-yellow, not radiating, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, smooth. Flowers: female and/or only disc florets 3-8, 0-2 female; corolla of disc florets narrowly campanulate above, bright yellow; Oct., Nov., Feb., Mar. Fruit with cypsela glabrous. Pappus of 2-4 barbellate bristles, or absent.
Lax or dense, twiggy shrublet, up to 0.6 mm high and in diam., covered with silver-grey indumentum with tissue paper-like surface, woolly when old, ± viscid, branches very leafy. Leaves very variable, 6-30 x 1-6 mm, linear to spathulate, often folded lengthwise, apex subacute, mucronate, often recurved. Capitula heterogamous, cylindric; involucral bracts in 4 series, graded, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pellucid, glossy. Flowers 3-5, bright yellow. Flowering time all year. Pappus of 2-4 bristles, ± equalling corolla, or absent. Cypselae < 1 mm long.
Stiffly branched, twiggy, grey-felted shrublet to 60 cm. Leaves linear to oblong, often folded, hooked, grey-felted. Flower heads disciform, sometimes discoid, crowded in terminal corymbs, cylindric, lemon-yellow, ± 3.5 x 2 mm, florets 3-8, ovary glabrous.
