Virgate shrub up to 1,5 m tall, or rarely sprawling, branches thinly grey-woolly, closely leafy, older parts glabrescent, rough with leaf scars. Leaves 10-30 (-40) x 1-2 (—6) mm, linear, linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, apex acute or subacute, mucro-nate, base broad, half-clasping, margins commonly re volute, upper surface thickly or thinly greyish-white woolly or glabrous or nearly so, lower surface greyish-white woolly. Heads heterogamous, hemispheriÂcal, 4—5 mm long, 5—8 mm across the radiating bracts, bases woolly, many in congested or open corymbose panicles terminating long leafy branches. Involucral bracts in c. 5 series, graded, loosely imbricate, inner about equalling or slightly exceeding flowers, tips minutely radiating, bright canary-yellow, rarely orange, glossy. Receptacle very shortly honeycombed. FlowÂers 47-105, 8-14 ("female"), 39-84 ("bisexual"), yellow. Achenes 0,75 mm long, with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering by patent cilia. Fig. 45:1.
