Well-branched shrub up to 1.5 m tall, branches tangled, young stems thinly white-woolly, glandular, leafy. Leaves often with axillary tufts of reduced leaves, main stem leaves 6-14 x 2-4 mm, diminishing slightly upwards, spreading, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, apex acute, stoutly mucronate, base somewhat eared, slightly decurrent, margins revolute, bluntly repand, undulate, both surfaces with rough coarse glandular hairs, sometimes cobwebby as well. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, 4-5 x 3-4 mm, few to several in terminal compact corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 4-5 series, imbricate, graded, inner about equalling flowers, oblong, tips rounded, not radiating, pellucid, glossy, straw-coloured. Receptacle with fimbrils about equalling ovaries. Flowers 17-24, 4-6 female, 14-18 homogamous. Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, nearly equalling corolla, barbellate, bases cohering by patent cilia. Flowering between August and December, but mainly in September.
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Tangled shrub, up to 1.5 m tall. Leaves often with axillary tufts, oblong, mostly 6-14 mm long, slightly auriculate, revolute, undulate-crisped, roughly glandular-hairy. Flowerheads in compact corymbs, disciform, campanulate, 4-5 mm long, bracts 4-or 5-seriate, oblong, rounded, straw-coloured, florets 17-24.
Like H. revolutum but leaves roughly glandular-hairy and margins conspicuously crisped.
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