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Annual herb, stems branched from the base, decumbent or erect, up to c. 250 mm long, thinly white-tomentose, leafy. Leaves up to 70 x 8 mm, but often much less than half that size, spathulate or oblanceolate, apex acute to obtuse, mucronate, both surfaces thinly grey-tomentose sometimes glabrescent. Heads c. 3 x 2,5 mm, in small stalked or sessile clusters racemosely ar­ranged. Involucral bracts in 3 series, pellucid, pale buff, ageing palest brown, sometimes purplish around the stereome. Receptacle tuberculate. Flowers c. 150—225, 140-220 ("female"), 4-6 ("bisexual"), in the proportion of at least 25 : 1. Achenes 0,5 mm long with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles of ("female") flowers scabridulous, of Q flowers with more or less barbellate tips.

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Annual herb, stems branched from the base, decumbent or erect, up to c. 250 mm long, thinly white-tomentose, leafy. Leaves up to 70 x 8 mm, but often much less than half that size, spathulate or oblanceolate, apex acute to obtuse, mucronate, both surfaces thinly grey-tomentose sometimes glabrescent. Heads c. 3 x 2,5 mm, in small stalked or sessile clusters racemosely ar­ranged. Involucral bracts in 3 series, pellucid, pale buff, ageing palest brown, sometimes purplish around the stereome. Receptacle tuberculate. Flowers c. 150—225, 140-220 ("female"), 4-6 ("bisexual"), in the proportion of at least 25 : 1. Achenes 0,5 mm long with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles of ("female") flowers scabridulous, of Q flowers with more or less barbellate tips.