Subshrub, stems many from the base, stout, erect to ±1.5 m, mostly simple below the inflorescence branches, glandular-setose, young parts thinly cobwebby as well, closely leafy. Leaves mostly 50-80 x 20-28 mm, smaller on the inflorescence branches, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, base broad, half-clasping, both surfaces and margins glandular-setose, midline and margins sometimes thinly cobwebby as well. Heads heterogamous or rarely homogamous, 17-20 mm long, about double that across the radiating bracts, broadly campanulate, several in a very open, leafy, terminal corymbose-panicle. Involucral bracts in ±9 series, graded, imbricate, much exceeding the flowers, glossy, straw-coloured to light brown. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers ±600-950, (0-)5-75 female, 550-920 homogamous. Achenes 0.75-1 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling the corolla, tip barbellate, shaft barbellate above, scabrid below, base smooth.
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Subshrub, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves 50-80 x 20-28 mm, smaller upwards, lanceolate, both surfaces and margins glandular-setose, midline and margins sometimes thinly cobwebby. Heads 17-20 mm long, broadly campanulate, several in an open corymbose-panicle. Flowers with straw-coloured to light brown involucral bracts; December and March to April.
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