Perennial herb, stock woody, crowned with several leaf rosettes, flowering stems lateral, decumbent, up to 450 mm long, loosely branched, loosely woolly, leafy. Radical leaves c. 30—50 x 2—4 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, apex acute or subacute, mucronate, base broad, papery, clasping, purplish when young, both surfaces grey-woolly; cauline leaves c. 10—20 x 2—3 mm, oblong-lanceolate, acute, mucronate, base slightly narrowed, half-clasping, both surÂfaces loosely woolly, glandular-setose, wool glabrescent. Heads heterogamous, campan-ulate, 10 mm long, about twice that across the radiating bracts, solitary at the branch tips, the whole forming a very open corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in c. 10 series, loosely imbricate, much exceeding the flowers, glossy, acute, white, tipped crimson. Flowers c. 120—230, 18—32 ("female"), 118—195 ("bisexual") yellow, sometimes tipped crimson. Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles several, barbellate above, nude below, bases not cohering.