Depressed shrub sts up to 6 dm. tall with stout mains stem; branches with long-persistent lvs; branchlets 2-3 mm. diam. including lvs, tomentose, close-set. Lvs closely imbricate, c. 2-3 mm. long, appressed, broad-triangular, slightly convex, obtuse, densely clad on both surfaces in long tangled fulvous hairs (white where shaded). Capitula solitary, terminal, c. 6 mm. diam.; phyll. c. 25 in 3 series, up to 5 mm. long, linear-oblong, inner thickened at base, membr. to scarious and lustrous above, glab. except at acute apices. Florets 30-40, ♀ few; achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, linear, compressed or angled, with sparse short appressed hairs.

2n = 28

Ascending to erect, much-branched shrub up to 60 cm tall; branchlets obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, 2-4 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs usually yellow-, rarely white-tomentose on both surfaces, finally partly glabrous on lower, apetiolate, ovate to ovate-oblong, involute, obtuse, slightly cucullate, 2-2.5-(4) × 1-1.5 mm. Capitula 3-5-(6) mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts tomentose on lamina, oblong, obtuse to acute, slightly radiating, membranous, with opaque stereome, 3-5 mm long. Disc yellow. Achenes with short appressed hairs, cylindric to obovoid, angled or compressed, 1.2-1.5 mm long.