Shrub or woody herb, 0.5-2.5 m high, much branched; bark smooth, grey; branches 4-5-angled or-ribbed, minutely glandular, viscid. Leaves bright green, often shiny with viscid exudate, petiolate, petiole 0.2-1.7 cm long, glandular, blade lanceolate, 3-14 cm long, 0.5-3(-4) cm wide, base cuneate to attenuate, margins entire, often undulate and sometimes slightly inrolled, apex attenuate or acuminate, minutely glandular, viscid. Capitula 3-6 mm long, several united in tight hemispherical cymes, several or many of which are united in terminal, leafy, dense corymbs; stalks of individual capitula 0.1-1.3 cm long, glandular; phyllaries yellow-green, ± 18, 3-5-seriate, the outermost shortest, lanceolate, 1-4 mm long, 0.5-1.6 mm wide, the margins hyaline, apex obtuse, viscid; receptacle flat to toroid, slightly toothed. Marginal florets yellow, 16-36 in one or two rows, tube 1.3-2 mm long, tubular, minutely dentate at the apex or with a ray to 0.2 mm long, or with a ray and 1-2 lateral teeth; style 1.7-3.2 mm long, with linear branches; central florets yellow, 7-9, tube 2-3.2 mm long, lobes 0.5-0.9 mm long; anthers 1.2-1.5 mm long with narrowly triangular appendages; style 2.6-4.4 mm long with widened papillose branches. Achenes of ray florets cylindrical, 0.9-1 mm long, pubescent; achenes of disc florets aborted, 0.4-1 mm long; pappus of minutely barbellate setae 2-3.3 mm long.
Shrub, 1-2 m high. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, often undulate and serrulate, tapering to an acuminate apex, resinous and glistening. Ray flowers dentate at apex. Flowers yellow.