Sparsely branched shrub, up to 0.4 m high. Leaves alternate, densely set, linear-lanceolate, arching, grooved, margins rolled inwards, glabrous except for ciliate-dentate margins. Capitula radiate, solitary, shortly pedunculate; peduncles white-hairy; involucral bracts in 3 or 4 rows, imbricate, ciliate. Ray florets blue-purple. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time June-Mar. Pappus of barbellate bristles. Cypselae obovate, yellowish to reddish, those of the ray florets glabrous, those of the disc florets shortly hairy.
Sprawling, sparsely hairy shrublet to 40 cm. Leaves linear, erect, imbricate, scabrid on margins. Flower heads radiate, solitary, nested in leaves, yellow with white to mauve rays.