Perennial, dwarf shrub, robust, glabrous, old twigs subspinescent, axils somewhat woolly. Leaves rigid, linear-lanceolate, acuminate to mucronate, flat, 1-nerved, entire, thick-edged. Pedicels scarcely longer than leaves, glabrous; involucral bracts oblong, membrane edged, subobtuse.
Shrub, up to 500 mm tall. Leaves alternate, entire, 4-10 mm long, linear to (ob)lanceolate-linear, rigid, midrib slightly elevated below. Involucral bracts obtuse to subacute. Achenes 3-winged. Flowers yellow.