stems suffruticose and decumbent at base, ascending, elongate, subsimple, ending in a pedunculoid fl. branch, woolly; leaves crowded near the base of the stem, sessile, the lower obovate, the upper oval, ovate or oblong, 3–5-nerved, obtuse, on both sides woolly, those on the peduncle lanceolate or linear, acute, the uppermost bract-like; heads hemispherical, many-fl., homogamous, cymoso-corymbose; inv. scales glabrous and glossy, ovate, acute or subacute, imbricated, not radiating, cream-colour. null
