Perennial; roots not seen. Branches few to numerous from base, perennial, ±erect, to 80 cm long, foliose. Leaves mostly cauline, alternate, crowded, sessile, with lower lamina slightly auriculate at base; ‘petioles’ indistinct from blade, to c. 45 mm long; upper lamina linear to trullate in outline, 45–70 (–110) mm long, 15–40 mm wide overall (individual lobes 1–2 mm wide), dark green and subfleshy, simple or 3–5-pinnatipartite; lobes linear, sometimes with small secondary lobe, stiffly herbaceous, with very narrow hyaline margins, acute, 1-veined. Capitula solitary on elongated peduncle, c. 10 mm diam. (excluding rays); involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, 10 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, striate; receptacle ±hemispherical; paleae 7.5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide. Ray florets female, c. 17; ligule 3-lobed, 15 mm long, with 9 veins, yellow. Disc florets bisexual, numerous, c. 5 mm long, 4-lobed, yellow. Achenes lanceolate, ±straight, 5.5 mm long, 0.8–1.0 mm wide, glabrous, ribbed, shiny, black. Pappus awns erect, c. 1 mm long, retrorsely barbed, with a small tubercle between awns.
On Kallanda Station it grows in partially shaded localities, close to minor creeks, in a steep rocky granite gorge on granitic lithosols on the edge of tall open woodlands of Araucaria cunninghamii, with a mid-dense shrub layer of Labichea nitida and Acacia leptostachya, and a thin grassy ground layer of Digitaria sp. and Eriachne pallescens.
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