Perennial shrub or dwarf shrub, 0.15-1.00 m high; branches at first densely villous, leaf scars small but prominent. Leaves alternate, imbricate, lanceolate or oblong, appressed-silky on both surfaces. Flowers in dense, terminal, sessile heads. Hypanthium: tube densely woolly outside, gradually widened upwards; sepals elliptic, obtuse. Petaloid floral outgrowths minute and tooth-like, or obsolete. Anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary oblong. Style filiform, nearly as long as the hypanthium tube. Stigma capitate. Flowering time June-Apr.
Slender shrub to 1.5 m. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic to elliptic, silky beneath; involucral leaves slightly smaller, with robust bases. Flowers ± 10-20 in terminal heads, 5-merous, bright yellow, hypanthium silky, petaloid floral scales 5, tiny.
Shrub, 0.6 m high. Leaves adpressed-silky on both surfaces, lanceolate or oblong. Flowers in dense terminal sessile heads. Calyx tube 20 mm long. Petals minute or obsolete. Flowers yellow.