Rigid, erect shrub, 0.3-0.6 m high. Leaves alternate, petiolate, pinnatipartite, lobes linear, upper leaves trifid or entire, thinly hairy. Capitula discoid, large, solitary, long pedunculate; involucral bracts oblong, obtuse. Florets yellow. Flowering time Nov.-July. Pappus an auriculately-shaped scale, dentate above. Cypselae obliquely wedge-shaped.