Erect, sparsely branched shrub up to 1 m tall, single-or few-stemmed at base; resprouter. Branches erect to flexuous, slender, ridged below leaf bases, adpressed-puberulent, leafy, becoming glabrous and naked with prominent leaf scars. Leaves alternate, adpressed or ascending, occasionally patent to reflexed, imbricate, sessile, epistomatic, narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, 7.5-18.0 x 0.8-4.0 mm, coriaceous, glabrous; adaxially flat or obtusely concave, smooth, dull, ± white-punctulate; abaxially obtusely convex, sometimes subkeeled just below apex, smooth, glossy; margin membranous, yellow in fresh state; apex acuminate; base cuneate; leaves below inflorescence broader with a wider membranous margin resembling involucral bracts, narrowly elliptic to elliptic or narrowly obovate to obovate 11.5-19.0 x 3.5-11.0 mm. Inflorescence a terminal, sessile, bracteate, more than 50-flowered, capitulum-like umbel with up to 30 open flowers at a time, 20-55 mm diam., on main flowering branches. Involucral bracts 6-8, narrowly elliptic to elliptic or obovate, 11.5-19.0 x 4.5-11.0 mm, innermost the widest, glabrous or abaxially sericeous along middle portion, ± flat or abaxially slightly keeled behind apex, middle portion coriaceous, 1-to 3-nervate, green; margin membranous, broad, yellow, sometimes tinged reddish purple at apex; apex mucronulate to mucronate or acuminate. Flowers zygomorphic, golden yellow, unscented, pedicellate. Pedicel 0.5-2.0 mm long, clothed with long, ascending, silky hairs. Hypanthium 3.8-7.8 mm long, circumscissile 0.5-0.67 from base; upper portion narrowly funnel-shaped, clothed with long, ascending, silky hairs outside, inside adpressed hirsute; basal portion ellipsoid or ovoid, clothed with short, ascending, silky hairs outside and glabrous inside. Sepals patent, adaxially glabrous, abaxially sericeous, unequal, posterior one the smallest, ovate, acute to rounded, 2.6-4.5 x 1.6-3.0 mm, lateral ones narrowly elliptic, 7.5-14.0 x 2.0-3.5 mm, acute, anterior one usually the largest, narrowly elliptic, 9.3-15.5 x 3.0-4.5 mm, acute. Stamens exserted; outer, antesepalous whorl arising at base of sepals; inner, antepetalous whorl arising at rim of hypanthium; filaments 2.0-6.5 mm long; anthers ellipsoid, 0.8-1.5 mm long, abaxially without broad connective tissue. Floral scales exserted, arising at mouth of hypanthium immediately below antepetalous stamens, narrowly obovoid or ellipsoid, 0.8-1.4 mm long, apex occasionally irregularly lobed, glabrous, yellow in fresh state. Ovary ellipsoid or obovoid, 1.2-2.5 mm long, glabrous. Style terete-obconical, 4.0-6.5 mm long, adpressed hairy only in upper 3/4. Stigma brush-like.
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Slender, erect shrub to 1 m. Leaves alternate, adpressed to ascending, sometimes patent to reflexed, narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate. Flowers many in capitula, 20-55 mm diam., yellow, sepals unequal, posterior sepal much smaller than others, stigma brush-like.
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