Plant stem robust, rigid-herbaceous, erect, angle-striate, cobwebby, simple, imbricated with leaves throughout; Stem 0.3-0.6 m [as ''1-2 ft.''] high, thick and strong, but full of pith. Leaves closely spaced, elliptic, dark above, grey-felted below, margins entire, pressed to stem, leaves half-clasping and adnate at base, oblongo-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous above, cobweb-tomentose beneath, distantly callous-denticulate or entire, with recurved margins; Leaves 1 1/2-2 inch. long, 4-7 lines wide, erect, one-nerved, the young ones thinly cobwebbed above, adult quite glabrous. Inflorescence not fully opened, very compound, forming (in the specimen seen) an oblong, close panicle; at a later stage probably more corymbose; both pedicels, bracts and invols. glabrous or nearly so. Capitula discoid heads in a much branched, dense, thyrsoid-panicle, discoid, about 12-flowered; pedicels short, scaly, glabrate; capitula in small terminal clusters of about 20; Involucre inv. glabrous, calycled, of about 8 broadish, flat sca
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