Perennial herb, ± cobwebby, glabrescent, rootstock woody, creeping. Stems many, erect, up to 0.35 m high, mostly simple, ± cobwebby, densely leafy. Leaves leathery, lanceolate, up to 25 x 5 mm long, ± sessile, apex acute, margins entire to serrate in upper half, thinly cobwebby to glabrescent. Inflorescence a corymbose panicle. Capitula few-many, radiate, disc and rays yellow, rays 6 or 7, short, soon recurved; involucre campanulate; bracts 8, 3.5-4.0 mm long; calyculus bracts few. Flowering time mainly Dec., Jan. Cypselae cylindrical, 2 mm long, ribbed, glabrous.