Shrub more erect, with strict but flexible branchlets 2-3 mm. diam.; lvs c. 2 mm. long, ovate-triangular, keeled, obtuse; tomentum looser; florets 25-30; achenes puberulous, < 1 mm. long; pappus-hairs 3-4 mm. long.

2n = 28

2n = 28

n = 14

n = 14

Erect or ascending, much-branched shrub, up to c. 30 cm tall; branchlets obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, 2-4 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs glabrous on lower, outer surface, densely white-tomentose on upper, inner surface, apetiolate, ovate to oblong-triangular, involute, obtuse to acute or acuminate, cucullate, (2)-2.5-4 × 1-2 mm. Lvs of seedlings and reversion shoots spreading, densely tomentose on both surfaces or only on upper. Capitula 3-7 mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts usually glabrous, sometimes hairy on lamina, oblong, obtuse to acute, not or slightly radiating, membranous, with pale and usually translucent, rarely whitish lamina, and opaque stereome, 3-4-(6) mm long. Disc pale or bright yellow. Achenes with short appressed hairs, cylindric, slightly angled or compressed, c. 1 mm long.