Depressed shrub occ. up to 6 dm. tall, with stout main stem; branches stout, with long-persistent lvs; branchlets close-set, tomentose, 7·5-10 mm. diam. including lvs. Lvs of juvenile plants and on reversion shoots spathulate, spreading from an appressed base, up to 15 mm. long, densely clad in loose white woolly tomentum. Lvs of adults closely imbricate, oblong-obtuse, obscurely keeled, c. 5 × 2.5 mm., scarious below; upper half coriac., glab. and convex on dorsal surface; ventral surface concave and densely clad in long tangled floccose white hairs; margins revolute, apex cucullate. Capitula solitary, terminal, sessile, 6 mm. diam.; phyll. in 3 series, linear-oblong, thickened at base, scarious at tips and on margins, spreading. Florets 20-40, ♀ few; achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, linear, compressed, pubescent; pappus-hairs rather stout, slightly thickened at apex.

2n = 28

Erect, spreading or ascending, much-branched shrub, up to 60 cm tall; branchlets obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, (4)-5-10 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs glabrous on lower, outer surface, densely white-tomentose on upper, inner surface, apetiolate, oblong-spathulate, involute, obtuse and cucullate, (4)-5-6 × 2-3 mm. Lvs of seedlings and reversion shoots spreading, densely tomentose on both surfaces. Capitula 6-10 mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts glabrous, oblong, obtuse to acute, not or slightly radiating, membranous, with pale and transparent lamina, and longer stereome, tinged brown or yellow and opaque, 4-6 mm long. Disc bright yellow. Achenes with short appressed hairs, cylindric, slightly angled or compressed, 1-1.5 mm long.