Much-branched, erect shrub, 0.3-1.0 m high. Leaves alternate, densely set, upper part recurved, sessile, ovate to narrowly ovate, entire, glabrous or with hairs along margins and with some hairs on blade, succulent. Capitula radiate, shortly pedunculate or subsessile, solitary or subcorymbosely arranged; peduncle hairy; involucral bracts in many rows, imbricate, lanceolate, stiffly hairy. Ray florets blue-purple. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time all year. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, present in both ray and disc florets. Cypselae obovate-elliptic, yellowish brown to reddish, those of ray florets glabrous, those of disc florets shortly hairy.
Rigid, densely leafy shrub to 1 m with white-woolly stems. Leaves ovate, glossy, margins scabrid, closely imbricate and reflexed. Flower heads radiate, solitary, crowded at ends of branches, yellow with mauve rays.