Sparingly branched, slender shrub, 0.6-1.2 m high, branches white-tomentose, sometimes glabrous. Leaves alternate, sessile, narrowly ovate or lower ones oblong, margins sharply serrate, the upper leaves sometimes entire, glabrous, without axillary leaf tufts or shoots. Capitula discoid, in simple or compound, terminal corymbs. Receptacle paleate. Florets tubular below, dilated above, yellow. Flowering time Feb.-July. Pappus of small scales. Cypselae narrowly obovate.