A laxly-branched twiggy subshrub to 1.3(3) m tall. Stems several, stiff, woody, appressed greyish-tomentellous, glabrescent; indumentum dense, hairs very shortly stalked T-shaped; branches and twigs leafy, brittle, greyish-to yellowisb-brown appressed-tomentellous. Leaves singly, or many in fascicles, from numerous tomentose cushions, sessile or shortly petiolate, up to 4.5 x 1.2 cm., usually smaller, narrowly obovate-spathulate to oblanceolate, apex truncate or rounded, base tapering-attenuate, margin crenulate-dentate about the apex otherwise entire, pubescent to glabrescent, gland-pitted, hairs T-shaped usually with one arm longer than the other. Capitula very numerous, paniculate orscorpioidly cymose, capitula stalks 0-16 mm long. Involucres up to c. 4 mm long, campanulate, soon loosely spreading-hemispheric. Phyllaries few, not firmly attached, soon diffusely arranged, apices purple ± truncate mucronate and somewhat serrulate, bases distinctly narrowed, margins ciliate, pubescent outside, hairs unequal-armed T-shaped; the outer phyllaries short, elliptic-ovate; the inner up to 3.5 mm long, oblong-oblanceolate. Corolla purple, up to c. 6 mm long. Achenes c. 2.5 mm long, somewhat cylindric, tapering to a sharp base, narrowly 6-8-ribbed, strigose-hispidulous; outer pappus very short of linear-acuminate scales; inner pappus of white barbellate setae c. 4 mm long.
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Shrub, up to 1.3 m high. Leaves narrowly obovate, 30 x 10 mm, subsessile, margin crenate at apex, pubescent to glabrescent, gland-dotted. Inflorescence a cymose-paniculate corymb. Inner pappus bristles barbellate. Achenes strigose-pubescent. Flowers purple.
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