Variable, glabrous, glaucous, semi-fleshy, perennial herb, stock woody with cushion-like woolly crown up to 200 mm in diam. Leaves erect, linear to broadly lanceolate, entire, up to 200 mm long, base petiole-like, woolly. Peduncles (scapes) up to 600 mm high. Capitula up to 45 mm in diam., rays (± 8) and disc yellow; involucral bracts lanceolate, 10-15 mm long. Flowering time Aug.-Feb., mainly Aug.-Oct. Pappus of copious, buff-coloured hairs, up to 20 mm long, conspicuous. Cypselae ribbed, hairy, up to 10 mm long, mucilaginous when wet. Olate, 10-15 mm long. Flowering time Aug.-Feb., mainly Aug.-Oct. Pappus of copious, buff-coloured hairs, up to 20 mm long, conspicuous. Cypselae ribbed, hairy, up to 10 mm long, mucilaginous when wet. Olate, 10-15 mm long. Flowering time Aug.-Feb., mainly Aug.-Oct. Pappus of copious, buff-coloured hairs, up to 20 mm long, conspicuous. Cypselae ribbed, hairy, up to 10 mm long, mucilaginous when wet.
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Perennial herb, 200-500 mm high; stemless, from woody rootstock, crown woolly. Leaves in a basal rosette; blade linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, apex acute, margins usually entire or rarely somewhat toothed, glabrous, thick, tapering to petiole-like base, flushed reddish purple at base. Heads radiate, up to 40 mm in diameter, solitary or in few-headed, open corymb, terminal; peduncles up to 400 mm long. Involucral bracts uniseriate, ovate, connate at base, ecalyculate. Flowers: ray florets ± 8, female or bisexual; disc florets functionally male, all florets yellow; Oct.-Jan. Fruit with cypsela oblong-elliptic, closely ribbed, silky, 10 mm long. Pappus of dirty white or buff-coloured scabrid bristles, persistent.
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