Spindly shrub up to 900 mm high, old stems bare, rough with leaf bases, branchlets closely leafy. Leaves commonly up to 20 x 3.5 mm, or 35 x 10 mm on coppice growth, ovate-lanceolate, apex acute, mucronate, base broad, half-clasping, margins revolute, both surfaces sometimes grey-woolly, or commonly upper surface very lightly cobwebby, hairs soon deciduous or confined to the midrib, often minutely gland-dotted and glutinous, sometimes glandular-hairy as well when young, lower surface white-felted, striate. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, 5-6 mm long, ±8 mm across the radiating involucral bracts, bases white-woolly, many in compact rounded corymbose clusters 15-20 mm across at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in 5-6 series, closely imbricate, graded, glossy, outer light brown, inner slightly exceeding flowers, tips obtuse, bright canary-yellow, minutely radiating. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers 34-56, 6-12 female, 26-50 homogamous. Achenes not seen, ovaries 1 mm long with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips subplumose, bases cohering by patent cilia.
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Spindly shrub, up to 900 mm high. Old stems bare, rough with leaf bases, branchlets closely leafy. Leaves up to 20 x 3.5 mm, or 35 x 10 mm on coppice growth, ovate-lanceolate, base ± clasping, margins revolute, both surfaces sometimes grey-woolly, or commonly upper surface ± cobwebby, hairs soon deciduous or confined to midrib, often minutely gland-dotted and glutinous, lower surface white-felted, striate. Capitula campanulate, 5-6 mm long, many in dense, rounded, terminal, corymbose clusters, 15-20 mm in diam.; involucral bracts in 5 or 6 series, glossy, outer light brown, inner bright yellow. Flowers 34-56. Flowering time Nov.-Feb. Pappus of many bristles, apex subplumose. Cypselae 1 mm long.
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