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Leaves ± subsessile, ± crowded, up to 55 x 2.8 mm., linear, much smaller on branches and abbreviated shoots, apex obtuse mucronate, margins entire and revolute, lamina glandular-punctate, hispidulous to scabridulous.
Achenes pale-brown, c. 2.5–2.75 mm. long, obpyramidal, 4–5-ribbed, hispidulous on me ribs and glandular between; outer pappus of short, narrow, brownish scales, the inner of brownish, barbellate setae 4–5 mm. long.
Capitula few to numerous, racemose or laxly paniculate; involucres up to c. 10 mm. long, hemispheric-campanulate, ± wider than long.
A bushy perennial herb up to c. 50(75) cm. tall from a small woody rootstock.
Stems annual, 1-many, stiffly branched, puberulous.
Corollas purplish, 5–9 mm. long.