Bushy half-shrub 100-450 mm tall, woody at the base and much branched there, branches erect or spreading, simple or forked, thinly greyish-white woolly, leafy throughout. Leaves mostly 10-40 x 2-6 mm, diminishing slightly upwards, linear-oblong to spathulate, apex acute to obtuse, apiculate, base narrowed, half-clasping, often auriculate, margins flat or crisped, both surfaces grey-woolly. Heads heterogamous, broadly campanulate, ±7 x 7 mm, many in terminal corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 7-8 series, graded, loosely imbricate, inner exceeding flowers, radiating, all lanceolate, acute or subacute, flat, outer pale to dark golden-brown, inner opaque milk-white, occasionally whole head suffused rose pink. Receptacle very shortly honeycombed. Flowers 59-142, 8-22 female, 50-117 homogamous. Achenes 0.75 mm long, glabrous or with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, scabrid, tips barbellate, bases nude, not cohering.
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Rounded, grey-woolly shrublet to 45 cm. Leaves oblanceolate-spathulate, grey-woolly. Flower heads disciform, several in terminal corymbs, broadly campanulate, ± 7 x 7 mm, golden-brown and white sometimes pink, involucral bracts spreading above, florets 60-140, ovary glabrous or papillate-hairy.
Bushy, grey-woolly shrublet, up to 450 mm tall. Leaves oblanceolate-spathulate, mostly 10-40 x 2-6 mm, grey-woolly. Flowerheads in terminal corymbs, disciform, broadly campanulate, ± 7 mm long, bracts 7-or 8-seriate, golden-brown and white or pink, acute, florets 60-140.
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