Subshrubs, 15–70 cm (much branched from bases). Stems erect (green to tan), slender, striate-angled, glabrous, resinous. Leaves present at flowering; short-petiolate ; blades (1-nerved) narrowly spatulate to linear, 20–40 × 2–3 mm, reduced to bracts distally, bases attenuate, margins entire or toothed (teeth to 2 mm), faces glabrous, gland-dotted, resinous. Heads in broad paniculiform arrays. Involucres cylindro-campanulate; staminate 3 mm, pistillate 4–4.5 mm. Phyllaries lanceolate, 1–4 mm, margins scarious, medians green or brownish, apices obtuse to acuminate (thickened, slightly erose and ciliate). Staminate florets 12–15; corollas 3–4 mm. Pistillate florets 15–20; corollas 3 mm. Cypselae 2–2.5 mm, 5-nerved, glabrous; pappi 4 mm.
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