Shrub 35–50 (–70) cm high. Leaves cauline, crowded at base and in lower part of branches, linear, 20–80 mm long, 0.8 mm wide, apiculate, 1-veined. Capitula 5–7 mm diam.; subtending bracts 1.5–3.1 mm long, 0.30–0.75 mm wide; involucral bracts 4–6, 2.5–3 (–4) mm long, 0.8–1 mm wide; paleae 4–4.8 mm long, 0.5 mm wide. Disc florets c. 4.8 mm long, creamy white with longitudinal dark stripes between lobes. Achenes 4–6.5 mm long, 3–4.5 mm wide (excl. awns). Pappus awns c. 1 mm long.
Found in the grassy/shrubby understorey of open woodland to 5 m tall, with Eucalyptus dichromophloia and Plectrachne sp., in sandy lateritic soil.
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