A rigid shrub, 0.3-0.6 m [as '1-2 ft.'] high. Branches divaricate, covered with white and smooth bark. Leaves scattered, alternate, sometimes tufted, club-shaped, obtuse, narrowed to the base, 1-7 mm long, fleshy, glabrous. Heads about 20-flowered, terminal, solitary at the end of almost naked twigs, obconic, 1-1.5 cm long, nearly 1 cm in diameter. Receptacle flat, honeycombed, the walls of the cells fimbriated. Involucral bracts 6-8-seriate, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, long-acuminate, very acute, glabrous, keeled, with membranous margins. Corolla 5.5 mm long, tubular; lobes unequal, triangular-lanceolate, subacute, about 1 mm long. Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla; filaments 2.5 mm long, linear. Anthers 2.5 mm long, linear, lanceolate and acute at the apex. Style 5 mm long, terete, narrowed at the base; style-branches 1 mm long, linear, acute, papillose. Achenes 2 mm long, densely villous. Pappus 6 mm long.
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Shrub or dwarf shrub, up to 0.6 m tall, with smooth, white bark. Leaves small, scattered, alternate, occasionally tufted, club-shaped, obtuse, narrowed at base, fleshy, glabrous. Flowerheads terminal, solitary, obconical; involucral bracts linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, long-acuminate, very acute, glabrous, margins membranous; disc florets yellow. Cypselas densely covered with long hairs.
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