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Perennial shrub or dwarf shrub, 0.4-0.9 m; ± branched from base; branches rather stout, pilose at first, leaf scars prominent. Leaves alternate, oblong, oval or ovate, acute, 5-nerved, densely appressed-silky on both surfaces. Flowers in terminal heads, sessile, up to 40-flowered. Hypanthium spreading-pilose outside; slender, subcylindrical; sepals yellow, oblong-lanceolate or oblong. Petaloid floral outgrowths minute, oblong. Anthers oblong, twice as long as floral outgrowths. Ovary oblong. Style slightly shorter than hypanthium tube. Stigma capitate. Flowering time Nov., Dec.
Perennial herb, 400-500 mm high; single stemmed, sparsely branched; silvery silky. Leaves crowded on upper parts of stems; blade elliptic to ovate, apex acute, appressed, silvery hairy, not becoming glabrous with age. Flowers: in sessile heads; petals 5; calyx with tube 12-18 mm long, lobes up to 8 mm long, spreading-pilose, bright yellow; May-Sep.
Undershrub, 400-500 mm tall. Flowers in terminal sessile heads. Calyx tube 15-30 mm long, spreading-pilose, lobes up to 8 mm long. Petals minute, oblong. Flowers yellow.
