Perennial shrub or suffrutex, 0.5-2.0 m high, stems and leaves clothed with copious, long, silky hairs, or woolly in axils. Leaves imbricate, sessile, erect, entire, obovate or oblong, glabrous or sometimes loosely silky woolly, apex mucronate. Peduncle long, sometimes glandular-hispid; involucral bracts oval-lanceolate, acute. Flowers yellow. Flowering time all year. Cypselae obovate to subterete, transversely ridge-netted or ridge-furrowed, 2-or 3-angled.