Evergreen shrub 50–180 cm tall, much branched, ericoid; stems densely leafy, brittle, at first grey with woolly hairs, glabrescent and showing leaf-scars after fall of the rather persistent bases of the dead leaves.. Leaves densely crowded, sessile, appressed, firm, acicular or subulate, 0.55–1 cm long, 0.1 cm wide, keeled, subacute, minutely apiculate, bright green, laxly woolly in the leaf axils, otherwise glabrous.. Capitula solitary on short upper axillary peduncles, radiate; stalks of individual capitula 0.7–2.3 cm long; phyllaries (11–12–)13, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3–4.5 mm long, united in lower third, briefly acuminate, shortly bearded at apex, otherwise glabrous, 3–5-veined.. Ray florets 13–16, yellow, rays 9–10 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, 4-veined; disc florets many, 3.5–4.5 mm long.. Achenes oblong, 2.5 mm long, 5–8-ribbed, glabrous; pappus of several bristles 1.5–2 mm long.
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