Erect shrub, 0.22-0.75 m high, all the young parts silky canescent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, base cuneate, apex truncate, 3-5-toothed or lobulate, teeth or lobes obtuse, upper leaves linear, entire. Capitula discoid, solitary, pedunculate; involucral bracts obtuse. Florets yellow. Flowering time July-Jan. (Apr.). Pappus an auriculately-shaped scale. Cypselae obliquely wedge-shaped.