Perennial herb, rootstock stout, woody, crown very woolly from the thick rather loose brownish wool on the young leaves, stems one or several from crown, simple, erect to 400 mm, greyish-white woolly, leafy particularly below. Leaves up to 130 x 50 mm, diminishing in size upwards and passing into bracts, lower obovate to elliptic, obtuse, apiculate, contracted into a broad, clasping, petiole-like base, upper obovate to oblanceolate, subacute to acute, all thickly clothed in greyish-white wool. Heads homogamous, turbinate-campanulate, c. 9 mm long, many in small clusters corymbose-paniculately arranged. Involucral bracts in 4—5 series, subequal, loosely imbricate, about equalling flowers, bases woolly, tips very acute, lemon-yellow, not radiating. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers 10—16. Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristÂles many, about equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering by patent cilia, some light fusion as well.
