Succulent shrub, 0.15-0.60 m high, ± glabrous, spreading, stems ± angular. Leaves sessile, up to 30 x 10 mm, ± clasping, cuneate-oblong, apex deltoid, mostly 3-5-toothed, leathery, glaucous (often black when dry). Capitula single, up to 10 mm in diam.; pedicels short, terminal or opposite leaves; involucral bracts 4 or 5, up to 15 mm long, broadly oblong, acute, connate at base, edges membranous. Flowering time Aug., Sept. Pappus of many delicate bristles. Cypselae densely white-hairy.
Succulent subshrub, up to 0.6 m high. Branches with grey-brown bark. Leaves obovate to elliptic, 5-10 mm broad, apex shallowly dentate. Corolla of female marginal flowers small (± 1.5 mm long). Marginal achenes glabrous or weakly hairy. Flowers yellow.