Perennial herb up to ±400 mm high, sparingly branched, branches thinly grey-woolly, leafy particularly above. Leaves ±15-40 x 1.5-6 mm, slightly smaller upwards, elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute, mucronate, base narrowed, sessile, both surfaces thinly grey-woolly. Heads homogamous, turbinate-campanulate, ±4 x 4 mm, many in small corymbose panicles terminating the branches. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, loosely imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, bases silvery, translucent, tips opaque white, acute, not radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils equalling ovaries. Flowers ±20-30. Achenes 0.5 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, scabridulous, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia, some light fusion as well.