Main stems stout, woody, up to c. 1 cm. diam., with ∞ erect or ascending branches. Lvs sessile, 5-10 × 1-2 cm., oblanceolate, apiculate, membr., glab. above, with white appressed tomentum below; midrib and pair of lateral veins us. distinct above and below; upper lvs smaller, narrower. Infl. large, of ∞ capitula corymbosely arranged on tomentose branchlets bearing foliaceous bracts. Capitula up to 1·5 cm. diam.; phyll.∞, white, oblong, c. 6 mm. long, clawed at base. Receptacle c. 2 mm. diam., closely alveolate, slightly convex. Achenes narrow-oblong, < 1 mm. long, glab. or with few appressed hairs, slightly compressed. Pappus-hairs c. 15, very slender.