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Subshrub, up to ± 0.3 m high, branchlets thinly white-felted, closely leafy. Leaves ± 3-15 x 1.0-1.5 mm, linear, rigid, spreading, margins revolute, apex uncinate, upper surface soon glabrous, lower surface white-woolly. Capitula usually heterogamous, ± 5 x 5 mm, few-several in compact, terminal corymbs; involucral bracts in 6-8 series, graded, apex very obtuse, opaque, creamy white or outer sometimes rosy. Receptacle fimbrils exceeding ovaries. Flowers 17-60. Flowering time July-Nov. Pappus of many bristles, ± equalling corolla, apex barbellate. Cypselae ± 1 mm long, glabrous or hairy.
Straggling, thinly felted, closely leafy shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves stiffly spreading, linear, revolute, hooked, glabrescent above, white-woolly beneath. Flower heads disciform, sometimes discoid, in dense, terminal corymbs, campanulate, creamy white, ± 5 x 5 mm, bracts spreading above, florets 17-60, ovary glabrous or papillate-hairy.
