Well-branched shrub up to 400 mm tall, commonly lax, sometimes compact, vegetaÂtive twigs closely leafy, flowering twigs more distantly so. Leaves up to c. 25 x 12 mm, rhomboid or elliptic, abruptly narrowed to a flat, petiole-like, clasping base up to c. 12 mm long, apex more or less acute, upper surface thinly grey-woolly, lightly cobwebby or sometimes glabrous, lower surface white-felted, triplinerved, nerves nearly always prominent below. Heads homogamous, narrowly campanulate, 4—5 mm long, 5—7 mm across the radiating bracts, few to many in corymbose panicles c. 20—120 mm across. Involucral bracts in c. 6 series, graded, imbricate, outer pale brownish, webbed together with wool, inner much exceeding flowers, tips milk-white, opaque. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers 9 — 25, yellow. Achenes 1 — 1,25 mm long, barrel-shaped, with myxogenie duplex hairs. Pappus bristÂles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases not cohering. Fig. 37: 1.
