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Shrub, up to 1 m high; branches virgate, greyish white-woolly, leafy. Leaves: blade linear-oblong, oblong or obovate, 6-23 x 2-9 mm, decreasing upwards, apex obtuse to acute, mucronate, bases broad and subcordate-clasping, petiole-like in larger obovate leaves, margins undulate or crisped; both surfaces closely greyish white-woolly. Heads discoid, cylindric, 4-5 x 2 mm, many in terminal, compact, corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 4 or 5 series, graded, inner ± equalling florets, imbricate, not radiating, oblong, ± distinctly keeled, tips blunt or subacute, often ± truncate and emarginate, opaque white or inner sometimes rosy, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, with fimbrils nearly equalling ovaries. Flowers: disc florets only, 5; corolla cylindric, yellowish; Nov.-Mar. Fruit with cypsela glabrous. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.
Dense or open shrublet, ± 0.15-1.00 m high, greyish-white, woolly, branches virgate, leafy. Leaves 6-23 x 2-9 mm, apex obtuse to acute, mucronate, base broad and often subcordate-clasping, only midvein visible, margins often undulate or crisped. Capitula cylindric, many, terminal; involucral bracts in 4 or 5 series, graded, imbricate, oblong-lanceolate, keeled, blunt or subacute, often truncate and emarginate. Receptacle with fimbrils ± equalling ovaries. Flowering time Nov.-May. Pappus of many bristles, ± equalling corolla. Cypselae 0.75 mm long.
Twiggy shrublet with rod-like branchlets, mostly up to 700 mm tall. Leaves oblong to obovate, mostly 6-23 mm long, undulate or crisped, grey-woolly, larger leaves pseudopetiolate. Flowerheads in compact, terminal cymes, discoid, cylindric, ± 4 mm long, bracts 4-or 5-seriate, acute to truncate, opaque white or pinkish, florets 5.
Small shrub, 0.15-1.00 m high. Leaves 6-23 x 2-9 mm, linear-oblong, oblong or obovate, bases broad and subcordate-clasping, petiole-like in larger obovate leaves, margins undulate or crisped. Heads cylindric, 4-5 mm long with 5 flowers. Flowers with involucral bracts opaque white or inner sometimes rosy.
Twiggy, grey-woolly shrublet mostly to 70 cm, branches often stiff. Leaves oblong to obovate, often pseudopetiolate, grey-woolly, crisped. Flower heads discoid, in compact, terminal cymes, cylindric, white, ± 4 x 2 mm, florets 5, ovary glabrous.
A herb.
