Single-stemmed, densely leafy shrub, 1.5 m high. Stem much-branched; branches erect to spreading, glabrous; fascicles present in leaf axils. Leaves opposite, closely imbricate, appressed to sometimes erect, 2.0-5.0 x 1.0-2.0 mm, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, sometimes mucronate, entire, without petiole-like base, without secondary basal lobes, glabrous on both surfaces, bony; basal swelling present, continuous with stem ribs. Capitula radiate, heterogamous, terminal on short axillary shoots, solitary, with 0-3 additional capitula from leaf axils below, prominent peduncles absent. Involucre 5.0-6.0 x 4.0-5.0 mm, funnel-shaped, tapering at the base; involucral bracts 4-seriate, tightly arranged, margins and apices scarious, membranous apices of all bracts 2.4-2.5 mm long, scarious texture, brown margins absent, median resin canals present; outer bracts lanceolate, 3.4 mm long, acute; middle bracts lanceolate, 4.0-4.5 mm long, acute; inner bracts lanceolate, 5.5 mm long, rounded. Receptacle convex; paleae in marginal series, linear, ± 4.0 mm long, rounded, scarious. Ray florets ± 8; tube 1.5 mm long; limb ovate to obovate, 4.8 x 2.3 mm, apically 3-dentate, white to purple. Disc florets ± 20, without resin canals; corolla 1.0 mm long, with only glandular trichomes, yellow to purple; tube 0.8 mm long; limb narrowly campanulate, 1.0 mm long (excluding lobes); lobes erect, ±0.4 mm long, triangular. Anthers 2.4 mm long (including apical appendage); apical appendage ovate. Style ± 2.0 mm long (excluding branches); branches ±0.3 mm long. Cypselas 1.9 x 0.6 mm, narrowly obovate, ribbed, apical rim thickened, entire, brown, glandular trichomes present, distribution unknown, discontinuous resin canals in ribs absent.
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