Woody perennial, main branches up to 400 mm long, apparently erect or decumbent, branching above, grey woolly-felted, glandular, leafy, each leaf with a very short (up to 10 mm) closely leafy axillary shoot. Leaves mostly 3-10(-23) x 1-1.5(-4) mm, the smallest on the axillary shoots, linear or the largest oblanceolate, obtuse, base broad, half-clasping, margins revolute, both surfaces thickly grey-woolly, glandular. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±7-8 x 5 mm, 10 mm when expanded, solitary, sessile at the tip of each axillary shoot, these racemosely arranged and the whole very floriferous. Involucral bracts in 5-6 series, graded, loosely imbricate, inner exceeding flowers, radiating, tips subopaque, white, very acute. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers ±23-30, 7-11 female, 16-21 homogamous, yellow, tipped pink. Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles very many, equalling corolla, scabridulous, bases cohering by patent cilia.
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Woody, perennial herb, 400 mm tall. Leaves persistently grey-woolly. Heads solitary at tips of very dwarf lateral shoots, producing very floriferous, raceme-like twigs. Heads 7-8 mm long, containing 20-30 flowers. Flowers yellow, tipped pink; involucral bracts white with subopaque tips.
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