Decumbent, succulent, annual or perennial herb, rooting at nodes, flowering stems erect, up to 0.21 m high. Leaves opposite, sessile and bases fused around stem, oblanceolate, entire, apex obtuse. Capitula shortly radiate, solitary in leaf axils, long pedunculate; peduncle glandular in upper part; involucral bracts multiseriate, imbricate, glandular. Receptacle paleate. Ray florets white. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time Sept.-Dec. Pappus of barbellate bristles. Cypselae obovate, brown, smooth with a few hairs.
Sprawling perennial with fleshy stems to 10 cm, rooting at nodes. Leaves opposite, fleshy, subterete, clasping at base, ± 20 x 3-4 mm. Flower heads radiate, yellow with white rays, bracts scabrid.