Stoutly branched shrub attaining 1 m, old branches often decumbent, nude below, above clad in old withered leaves, branch-lets short, densely white-woolly, very closeÂly leafy. Leaves spreading, mostly 20—50 x 10—25 mm, becoming bracteate under the heads, elliptic, apex obtuse, mucronate, base broad, clasping, margins flat, upper surface glandular-pubescent, woolly over the 3 main nerves, greyish-white woolly below. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, c. 25 mm long, double that across the radiating bracts, solitary at tips of branchlets in axils of upper leaves. Involucral bracts in c. 10 series, graded, imbricate, much exceeding flowers, glossy, outer pale brown, inner rosy fading to white, acute. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers c. 1 000, c. 50 ("female"), 950 ("bisexual"). Achenes not seen, ovaries glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, barbellate above, bases not coherÂing. Fig. 57: 2.
