Shrub 20–60 cm high; branches diverging at 30–90º; stem wings entire, 0.2–1.4 mm wide. Leaves narrowly elliptic or elliptic, 12–52 mm long, 3.5–18 mm wide, 2.6–4.6 times longer than wide; glandular hairs absent; upper surface faintly to moderately bullate; lanate hairs moderately dense to very dense on upper surface, moderately dense to dense on lower surface. Inflorescences globose, 10–15 mm long, 10–14 mm wide at anthesis, 1–1.2 times longer than broad; peduncles (5–) 7–25 mm long. Longest inner bracts 4.0–4.8 mm long; few or no cilia visible. Female florets 8–17; corolla 2.7–3.6 mm long. Hermaphrodite floret solitary; corolla 3.1–3.8 mm long; corolla lobes 0.6–0.9 mm long, with globose sessile glands present and eglandular trichomes absent. Achenes 0.6–0.75 mm long, glabrous or with 1–25 twin hairs. Pappus 2.5–3.1 mm long.
It grows on swales or dunes in shrubland or low woodland, or in eucalypt woodland, always on sandy soils.
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