Perennial herb; flowering stem up to 400 mm high from woody rhizome, 1-several, lateral to leaf rosettes, decumbent to erect, simple below inflorescence branches, glandular-pubescent, remotely leafy. Leaves: blade of basal leaves linear to very narrowly obovate, up to 150 x 10(-15) mm, apex subobtuse, base broad, flat, petiole-like, clasping; margins serrate or serrulate; stem leaves few, similar, smaller, sessile, half-clasping, passing into bracts; glandular-pubescent. Heads radiate, 1-few, 10-11 mm long, in a corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts 12-20, 9-13 mm long, equalling disc florets, glandular pubescent; calyculus bracts few, small. Flowers: ray florets 8-13, ray and disc florets yellow; Dec.-Apr. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) cylindrical, ribbed, furrows white-hispid.
Perennial herb, glandular-pubescent, rhizomatous. Stems 1-several, up to 0.4 m high, lateral to leaf rosettes, decumbent, then erect, simple below, remotely leafy. Leaves: radical leaves linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, up to 150 x 15 mm, base broad, flat, petiole-like, clasping, margins serrate or serrulate; cauline leaves few, smaller, sessile, linear or linear-oblong, half-clasping. Inflorescence a corymbose panicle. Capitula 1-few, disc and rays bright yellow, rays 8, long, spreading; involucre campanulate; bracts 13, 9-12 mm long; calyculus bracts very few. Flowering time Jan.-Mar. Cypselae cylindrical, ± 4.5 mm long, ribbed, furrows white-hispid.