Perennial herb, up to 0.45 m high; all vegetative parts as well as sepals, ovary and fruit densely covered and grey with stalked glands, stellate and simple hairs. Stems spreading erect; lower dead leaves or leaf bases persistent. Leaves narrowly linear-obovate, 15-70 x 1.5-6.0 mm, rarely pinnatifid with 2 or 3 pairs of narrow, upward-pointing lateral lobes and an oblong terminal lobe. Flowers: in lax, terminal racemes; petals narrowly spathulate, 6.5-10.0 x 1.0-1.5 mm, margins wavy; green, dirty cream-coloured, creamy brown or dull purplish; Oct.-Jan. Fruit subsessile; siliquae linear, 35-70 mm long, stellately and glandular-hairy.
Perennial shrublet, 0.20-0.45 m high, stunted, almost cushion-like or spreading-erect, branched, lower dead leaves persistent; all vegetative parts, as well as sepals, ovary and fruit covered with hairs and with scattered stalked glands. Leaves linear-oblanceolate, margins entire, subentire, repand-dentate or shallowly sinuately few-lobed. Inflorescence a raceme. Sepals linear to linear-oblong, margins membranous, subpersistent. Petals spathulate, claw membranous, blade bent outwards, margins wavy. Fruit a siliqua, linear, terete, submoniliform, erect-spreading, subsessile. Seeds broadly oblong, subcompressed.
Cushion-like or spreading to erect shrublet, up to 450 mm tall, nearly entirely covered with dense stellate hairs. Leaves linear-oblanceolate, 15-70 x 1.5-6 mm, entire to rarely pinnatifid with 2 or 3 pairs of lobes. Flowers dirty cream to dull purplish. Fruit linear, terete, ± like a beaded string, glandular. Flowering Oct.-Dec., depending on rain.
Perennial shrublet, up to 450 mm tall. All vegetative parts as well as sepals, ovary and fruit densely covered and grey with stellate and subsimple hairs and stalked glands. Leaves linear-oblanceolate, 15-70 x 1.5-6.0 mm. Siliquae linear, 35-70 mm long. Flowers green, dirty cream, creamy brown or dull purplish.
Tufted perennial or dwarf shrublet to 45 cm, densely grey-felted and with scattered glandular hairs. Leaves mostly basal, oblanceolate (rarely sinuate-pinnatifid). Flowers subsessile in lax, ± ebracteate spikes, greenish yellow to brownish. Fruits terete-submoniliform, densely grey-felted.