Erect shrub, (50–) 80–100 cm high, with twigs becoming glabrous except at leaf axils and axillary buds. Leaves ±sessile, distant, fasciculate on short, axillary branches, narrowly lanceolate-oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 10–35 mm long, 2–7 mm wide, entire or distantly 1–many-toothed, acute, becoming glabrous. Capitula solitary, less than 8 mm long, c. 5–6 mm diam.; peduncles 3–4 cm long; involucral bracts linear-lanceolate to broadly lanceolate; outermost bracts c. half as long as inner ones, acute to acuminate or cuspidate; paleae absent or 1–3. Florets 4–7, white; corolla tube c. 2 mm long; lobes 2.5–3 mm long; anthers as long as corolla lobes. Achenes oblong-obovoid, 2.5–4 mm long, ±compressed, densely colliculate and tomentose along ribs; ribs prolonged to form an open cavity. Pappus bristles, if present, glabrous or tomentose, c. 1 mm long.
Occurs in silty-clay moist, previously waterlogged areas, along seasonal creeks, seasonal lagoons, among sparse grass and beneath an overstorey of Melaleuca species.
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