shrubby, much branched and ramulous; leaves linear, involute, mucronate or obtuse, spirally twisted, cobwebby-canescent; axils nude; heads in small terminal tufts, or short, oblong spikes; floral leaves shorter than the involucres; inv. scales oblong, sub-obtuse, pointless; achene angular, villous, pappus of many plumes. A much branched, flexuous, small bush, 3–12 inches high or more, closely leafy, with greyish, cobwebby indument. Leaves variable in length, 1–5 lines long, the shorter ones commonly pointless. Inv. scales varying from horn-colour to rufous-brown, subobtuse, 2 1/2 lines long. I find the achenes, both in Thunberg's and subsequently collected specimens, villous. Flowers white.
