stem suffruticose at base, ascending-erect, simple, or branched from the base, the branches virgate, woolly; leaves sessile, lanceolate, apiculate, loosely cobwebbed above, white-woolly beneath, 3–5-nerved, the lower acute, the upper acuminate; cymes subpedunculate, compound, flat-topped, densely many-headed, its branches woolly, leafless; heads subsessile, campanulate, about 20–25-flowered, homogamous; inv. scales dorsally thinly woolly, glabrous near the apex, linear, scarious, thin, the outer acute, pale horn-colour, the inner obtuse, fulvous-flavescent. Stems or branches 1–1 1/2 ft. high. Leaves in α, 1 1/2–2 inches long, 4–7 lines wide; in β, 3–6 lines wide, thinly woolly and pale-greenish above. Cymes corymbose, much branched. Heads 2–2 1/2 lines long. Recept. quite naked! Pappus scabrous. The broad-leaved form is very similar in aspect to H. tricostatum, but differs in the acute inv. scales, and absence of fimbrils on the receptacle.