Suffruticose, 9–18 in. high or more, branched above; branches subvirgate, terete, cottony above, leafy. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, subobtuse with short cartilaginous mucro, sessile, wide or scarcely narrowed at base, more or less densely tomentose on both sides especially beneath, entire, margins often revolute, 1/3–1 1/4 in. long by 1/16– 1/4 in. wide. Capitula campanulate, 1/5 in. long, about 50-flowered, subsessile, crowded in dense globose or corymbose clusters, 1–3 in. wide at ends of branches. Scales of involucre pluriseriate, of prim-rose colour, shining; inner oblong-oblanceolate or oval-oblong, subacute or obtuse, glabrous; outer oblong or ovate, subacute, thinly woolly at base outside. Receptacle rather prominent, naked. hermaphrodite fl. ∞, outermost ♀. Achenes minutely glandular, otherwise glabrous.
