Perennial herb, to 40 cm high, woody below, divaricately branched, with shoots thinly hairy and stipitate-glandular. Leaves distant, sessile, elliptic, 1.8–9.1 mm long, 1.3–5.3 mm wide, cuneate, crenulate, undulate, obtuse, minutely stipitate-glandular, appearing punctate, thinly moniliform-hairy. Capitula 6–7 mm diam. in lax corymbs; peduncles short, bracteate; involucral bracts 3–4-seriate, narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, entire, acute, mucronate, densely L-shaped-hairy and glandular; receptacle epaleate. Florets 15, purple or bluish purple, surpassing involucre; corolla tube 5–6 mm long; lobes 2.3–2.5 mm long, acute, dorsally glandular-punctate; anthers as long as or slightly longer than corolla lobes. Achenes triquetrous, 0.8–1.5 mm long, broadening upwards, ±densely sericeous with long, multicellular hairs and scattered sessile glands. Pappus bristles c. 30, uniseriate, filiform, 3.8–4.9 mm long.
Occurs on summits, slopes and sheltered gullies of rounded hills in skeletal, red soil over massive banded ironstone of the Brockman Iron Formation, among woodlands of Eucalyptus, Acacia, Hakea, Triodia, Dampiera and Waltheria species.
Home