Herbaceous, perennial shrub, up to 1.5 m high. Stems much branched, ribbed, roughly hispid. Leaves dense, sessile, oblong, obovate-oblong or fiddle-shaped, up to 75 mm long, base stem-clasping, auriculate, margins revolute, sharply and unequally toothed, green and rough above, cobwebby and net-veined below. Inflorescence a much-branched corymb. Capitula many, small, disc and rays (5-8) bright yellow; involucre campanulate; bracts ± 20, 3-4 mm long; calyculus bracts several, minute. Flowering time Sept.-Jan. Cypselae cylindrical, 2 mm long, ribbed, hairy.
Robust, densely leafy, roughly hairy shrub to 1.5 m, with scabrid stems. Leaves oblong to oblanceolate, irregularly toothed, margins revolute, clasping at base, often woolly below with raised veins. Flower heads radiate, small, in branched corymbs, yellow, involucres calycled.