Suffruticose, paniculately much-branched; the rigid, striate branches, peduncles, and foliage thinly appressed-pubescent, sub-canescent; leaves sessile, narrow-linear, obtuse, with revolute margins, one-nerved beneath; heads terminal and axillary, solitary, pedunculate, about 10-flowered; invol. oblong, the outer scales roundish or ovate, obtuse, the inner oblong, subacute, mucronulate, all close-pressed, at first silky, becoming glabrate; achenes minutely-pubescent.
Subshrub, up to 1 m high. Leaves narrow-linear, thinly appressed-pubescent. Involucral bracts oblong, outer roundish or ovate, inner oblong, all close-pressed, silky at first, glabrate. Achenes minutely pubescent. Flowers purple.