Erect shrub, 1.2-1.5 m high, young stems densely leafy. Leaves linear, soon reflexed, up to 30 x 3 mm, margins revolute, thinly woolly below, glandular-hispid above, very acute. Capitula few in terminal corymbs; involucre campanulate, 12-14 mm long; bracts margined dark brown, glandular-hispid. Flowers yellow, rays female and fertile, 8-10, discs functionally male. Flowering time Sept.-Nov., Jan., May. Pappus of setae, half as long as tube of disc, soon caducous. Achene narrowly barrel-shaped, closely ribbed, glabrous or nearly so, almost always derived from ray florets.
Folia saepius conferta, 1/2-1 poll, longa. Pedunculi erecti, foliis superioribus breviores, glanduloso-hirti v. pilosi. 1/4 poll, longi, v. internum capitula subsessilia. Involucrum 1/2 poll, diam., glanduloso-hirtum, squamulis indefinitis marginibus apicem versus discoIoribus,exterioribus minutis ovatis, interioribus gradatim longioribus lanceolatis oblongisve appresse imbricatis. Flores radii circiter 7-12, ligula subplana; disci tubulosi, involucre aequilongi.