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Perennial herb; flowering stems up to 0.6 m high from stout, woody rootstock; stems 1 or few from crown, erect, branching low down or from ± middle, lower part ± glabrous, inflorescence branches ± glandular. Leaves ± leathery, ± dense on lower part of stem; blade narrowly or broadly elliptic, up to 110 x 30 mm, base narrow, flat, winged, petiole-like, clasping; smaller, narrower upwards, broad-based, ear-clasping; margins ± callose dentate, both surfaces glabrous or nearly so. Heads discoid, 10-12 x 12-15 mm, few to many, in open, corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts ± 16(14-18), up to 7 mm long, glandular-pilose; calyculus bracts ± 3-5, small. Flowers: disc florets only, purple; Nov.-Feb. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) cylindrical, ribbed, ± glabrous or minutely and sparsely hispid between ribs.
Perennial herb, ± glabrous, rootstock stout, woody. Stems 1-few, erect, up to 0.6 m long. Leaves ± leathery, ± dense on lower part of stem, elliptic, base narrow, winged, petiole-like, clasping, up to 110 x 30 mm, smaller, narrower upwards, margins ± dentate. Inflorescence an open corymbose panicle. Capitula few-many, discoid, purple; involucre campanulate; bracts ± 16, up to 7 mm long, glandular-pilose; calyculus bracts very few, small. Flowering time Nov.-Apr. Cypselae cylindrical, 3 mm long, ribbed, ± glabrous.
