Perennial herb 0.2–0.5 m high; annual stems sprawling or prostrate, not rooting at nodes. Leaves sessile or subsessile, very variable, narrowly linear to narrowly lanceolate, 30–50 (–90) mm long, 2–5 (–10) mm wide, cuneate basally, usually coarsely serrate with spreading teeth, the 2 basal teeth often larger and shortly lobe-like (occasionally some leaves almost entire), acute; both surfaces dark green and coarsely scabrous. Capitula 1–3, often solitary; peduncles 10–15 (–25) cm long; involucral bracts lanceolate, 4–5 mm long, shorter than disc florets, densely scabrous dorsally; paleae lanceolate, 4–5 mm long in flower, yellow-green. Ray florets 8–11 (–18); ligule 12–20 (–25) mm long, 2-or 3-lobed. Disc florets 26–35. Achenes obovoid, 2.5–3.0 (–3.5) mm long, 1.0–1.2 mm wide, weakly and bluntly 2-or 4-(disc achenes) or 3-angled (ray achenes), but not winged, sometimes lacking angles, dark grey-black, smooth. Pappus a few sparse minute scales, on a short rostrum, with no awns.
Usually found in the relatively dry grassy understorey of open woodlands of Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora, on a range of soils (basalts, sandstones, loams, granitic sand), at altitudes from c. 120–600 m.
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