Subshrub 0.8–1.5 m high; young stems erect, branched, appressed-pilose; older stems glabrous with pale ±corky bark. Leaves with petiole 5–7 (–20) mm long; lamina lanceolate, 40–60 (–100) mm long, 10–12 (–30) mm wide, rounded to cuneate basally, shortly serrate, acute to acuminate, discolorous, coarsely appressed-scabrous on both surfaces especially on prominent veins beneath. Capitula in clusters of 1–3, in fruit 7–10 mm long, 8–10 mm diam.; peduncles 15–20 (–30) mm long; outer bracts linear to lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 6 (–10) mm long, acute, c. equalling disc florets, appressed-scabrous dorsally; inner bracts similar but narrower with hairs more apical; paleae linear to lanceolate, 7–8 mm long in flower, green, with midrib and 2 or 3 lateral longitudinal striae, conduplicate, dorsally densely hispid. Ray florets 6–10; ligule 8 mm long, 2-lobed. Disc florets c. 20; corolla yellow to orange, pilose externally; anther thecae yellow. Achenes narrowly obcuneate, 5–6 mm long, 2 mm wide, 3-angled with angles narrowly winged, and wing tips extended at apex into short acute lobes; body of achene densely and minutely tuberculate. Pappus a ring of very short irregular scales to 0.2 mm long.
Found in open grasslands of Enneapogon, Sorghum and Aristida spp., or the understorey of Eucalyptus/Corymbia open grassy woodland, on a range of soils and substrates (limestone, granite, sandstone).
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