Herbaceous perennial or subshrub, branched from the base, stock with vegeta­tive buds or small leaf tufts, stems up to 1 m tall, but often only c. 500 mm, woody, brittle, glandular-setose, uppermost parts sometimes white-cobwebby as well, closely leafy. Leaves mostly 20-50 x 10-20 mm, slightly smaller on the inflorescence bran­ches, mostly oblong-ovate often becoming elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate on the inflorescence branches, obtuse to acute, mucronate, base broad, more or less cordate-clasping, both surfaces and margins glandular-setose, margins and sometimes the midline above sometimes woolly as well, young leaves sometimes cobwebby all over. Heads heterogamous, 10—12 (—14) mm long, about double that across the radiating bracts, depressed-globose, solitary at the tips of long leafy branchlets corymbosely arranged. Involucral bracts in c. 9 series, graded, imbricate, inner much exceeding the flowers, glossy, yellow often overlaid pale brown outside. Receptacle shortly honeycombed or nearly smooth. Flowers c. 480-1 100, 65-160 ("female"), 400-950 ("bisexual"). Ache-nes 1 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalli