Much-branched brittle shrub 0.4–1 (–2) m high; young stems with appressed hairs; older stems white, glabrous. Leaves brittle, very shortly petiolate, linear, lanceolate, ovate or obovate, (25–) 60–90 mm long, (10–) 15–30 (–35) mm wide, entire or with few inconspicuous teeth, acute, acuminate or blunt; both surfaces shiny and glabrescent or with white dense appressed hairs. Capitula 5–10 in a crowded dichasium on short peduncles; involucre narrowly campanulate, 10 mm long, 6–8 mm wide. Disc florets c. 15; corolla yellow. Achenes broadly to narrowly ovate or slightly obovate, 6.0–7.5 mm long, 4.0–4.5 mm wide, weakly keeled, with broad membranous spreading entire or lacerate wings when mature. Pappus a shallow cup with 2 short weak scale-like awns.
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