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Crown brown-silky woolly, stems 1-many, simple, erect, up to ± 600 mm long, thinly white-felted, leafy in lower half, bracteate above. Leaves up to ± 120 x 30 mm, elliptic or elliptic-spathulate, apex acute, base narrowed, half-clasping, mostly both surfaces thinly to thickly greyish white-woolly, prominently 3-nerved. Capitula campanulate or broadly cylindric, ± 5 x 3 mm, up to ± 12 in tight clusters, these in open, corymbose panicles; involucral bracts in ± 6 series, woolly, straw-coloured or pale brown, not radiating. Flowers 15-30. Flowering time Dec.-Apr. Pappus of many bristles, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia.
Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves 120 x 30 mm, elliptic or elliptic-spathulate, both surfaces thinly to thickly greyish white woolly, sometimes glabrescent and wool then clinging to margins and main veins. Heads campanulate or broadly cylindric, in tight clusters, these in an open corymbose panicle. Flowers yellow; involucral bracts straw-coloured or pale brown.
