Much-branched, brittle, greyish shrub to 1 m high, sparsely tomentose; branchlets not spinescent. Leaves not congested, spreading, narrowly obovate to spathulate, 3–6 mm long, covered with small globular glands and a thin greyish tomentum. Involucre narrowly turbinate, c. 10 mm long; bracts cartilaginous, woolly-ciliate, resinous and shortly tomentose towards apex. Florets 3 or 4; corolla c. 4.5 mm long, white. Male florets: anthers calcarate and very shortly tailed; sterile achene c. 2 mm long. Female florets: style branches spreading; achene narrowly cylindrical, c. 3 mm long (not seen in mature state); pappus bristles densely barbellate to apex, c. ⅔ length of corolla.
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