Small annual herb 15-40 mm tall, stems ± erect, simple or subsimple, tufted, white woolly-cobwebby, leafy. Leaves 6-20 x 1-3 mm, oblanceolate, apex subacute, mucronate, base much narrowed, margins flat, both surfaces thinly white woolly-cobwebby. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, c. 3 x 2 mm, on short, loosely woolly peduncles clustered at the branchlet tips. Involucral bracts in c. 3 series, outer shorter, inner subequal, slightly e x ceeding flowers, pale straw yellow, tips opaque, pale straw-coloured, obtuse. Receptacle shallowly tubercled. Flowers c. 25-35, 15-21 ('female'), 9-14 ('bisexual') in the proportion 1.5-2: 1, yellow, tipped reddish. Achenes not seen, ovaries 0.75 mm long, thickly clad in relatively large elliptical unicellular hairs, highly myxogenic. Pappus bristles with barbellate tips and shafts, bases abruptly expanded and scalelike, shortly fused into a smooth ring, tardily deciduous.
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Small, erect, tufted annual, 15-40 mm tall. Leaves oblanceolate, thinly white-woolly to cobwebby. Flowerheads discoid, small, clustered at branch tips; involucral bracts pale straw-coloured; disc yellow, tipped reddish. Cypselas with relatively large, elongate hairs; pappus bristles with barbellate tips and shafts, bases abruptly expanded and scale-like, fused into a smooth ring.
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