Straggling subshrub perhaps up to 600 mm tall, branching from the base, branches often tangled, long, slender, thinly white-woolly, leafy, becoming distantly so and pedunculoid below the compound inÂflorescence. Leaves 7—40 x 4—15 mm, lower with an elliptic to subrotund, acute to obtuse, mucronate blade, narrowed below and petiole-like, base expanded, ear-clasping, petiole becoming less pronounced upwards, uppermost leaves oblong, sessile, passing into distant, lanceolate-acuminate bracts, margins of all minutely crisped, upper surface coarsely hairy, lightly cobÂwebby as well, at least initially, lower surface thinly white-woolly-felted. Heads homogamous, cylindric-campanulate, 3—4 x 2—4 mm, few to many in terminal congested clusters 10—20 mm across, becomÂing somewhat lax with age. Involucral bracts in 4—5 series, more or less graded, outermost pellucid, tinged palest brown, glabrous or thinly cobwebby, inner with tips opaque milk-white, sometimes reddish above the stereome, or rarely the whole tip suffused pink, obtuse, or subacute, someÂwhat crisped, minutely radiating. ReceptÂacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 8—31. Achenes 0,75 mm long, ± cylindric, with peculiar thickened hairs, not myxogenic. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia. Fig. 38: 1.
