Shrub up to 2 m. tall; branchlets slender, glutinous, clad in fulvous tomentum. Lvs ± glutinous when young, becoming glab. above, retaining fulvous tomentum below; 4-8 × c. 1 mm., linear to linear-spathulate, coriac., spreading when mature from erect petiole, margins slightly revolute. Capitula ∞, c. 35 per corymb. Phyll. in 3-4 series, outer pubescent to glab., inner with white radiating tips; forming cylindric to very narrow-turbinate involucre up to 5 mm. long. Florets 5-10 per capitulum; scales of receptacle absent or 1-2. Achenes hardly 1 mm. long, pubescent to glab.; pappus-hairs up to 3·5 mm. long, slightly thickened at tips or not.
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