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Perennial herb; flowering stem up to 1 m high, solitary, simple, leafy in lower part, thinly white-woolly cobwebby, wool persisting in wisps in leaf axils and on involucre. Leaves: blade variable, very narrowly obovate to broadly elliptic, up to 400 x 40 mm, apex acute to acuminate, base tapering to petiole up to 1/2 length of leaf; upper leaves becoming sessile, broad-based, half-clasping, passing into bracts; margins callose-denticulate; wisps of white cobwebby indumentum in leaf and bract axils. Heads discoid, ± 12 x 15 mm, few to many, corymbosely or racemosely arranged. Involucral bracts ± 20, ± 9 mm long, shorter than disc florets, lightly calycled, with wisps of white cobwebby indumentum on involucre. Flowers: disc florets only, dull deep violet; Nov.-Jan. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary?) glabrous.
Perennial herb, thinly white-woolly cobwebby, particularly in leaf and bract axils and on involucre. Flowering stem up to 1 m high, single, simple, leafy below. Leaves leathery, lanceolate to broadly elliptic, up to 400 mm long, lower half petiole-like, upper leaves and bracts sessile, broad-based, margins thickened, callose-denticulate. Inflorescence corymbose or racemose; peduncles long. Capitula few-many, discoid, dull, deep violet; involucre campanulate; bracts ± 20, ± 9 mm long; calyculus bracts few, not descending on peduncle. Flowering time Aug.-Mar. Cypselae cylindrical, 5-6 mm long, ribbed, glabrous.
Perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Wisps of white cobwebby indumentum in leaf and bract axils and on involucre. Leaf margins callose-denticulate. Heads discoid. Achenes glabrous. Flowers dull deep voilet; November to December and in March.
