Perennial herb. Stems spreading, decumbent. Leaves crowded towards ends of shoots, pinnatisect, oblanceolate in outline, 2–5 cm long, 0.5–2.5 cm wide, long-attenuate into a scarcely differentiated petiole, glabrous, with 3 or 4 pairs of segments, each segment 2–5 mm wide, cuneate, usually with 3 apical teeth. Capitula solitary, c. 1 cm diam.; peduncles 10–20 cm long, naked except for 1 or 2 small bract-like leaves; involucral bracts uniseriate, oblongelliptic, 5–6 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, rounded. Ray florets c. 30, 7 mm long, 0.75 mm wide, white, sometimes tinged pink outside; disc florets numerous, yellow. Cypselas c. 2 mm long, cuneate, with longitudinal folds; pappus of c. 15 bristles, free, 0.25 mm long.
Frequent in damp rocky ledges at medium to higher altitudes on the southern mountains, rare at lower elevations; damp shaded areas at higher elevations (Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW) 2007: 122).
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