Tangled, twiggy, thinly grey-woolly shrublet to 40 cm. Leaves often tufted on short shoots, linear, apiculate, woolly or glabrescent, margins strongly revolute. Flower heads discoid, 1-4 at branch tips, cylindric, brownish, ± 4 x 2 mm, florets ± 10, ovary papillate-hairy.