Shrubby, rounded perennial, up to 1 m high, ± glabrous to whitish cobwebby. Stems erect, branched, leafy. Leaves in axillary tufts, linear to linear-lanceolate, sessile, up to 80 mm long, margins revolute, entire or denticulate. Inflorescence densely corymbose, many-headed. Capitula radiate, disc and rays (8-10) yellow; involucre campanulate; bracts 12-15, 3 mm long; calyculus bracts several, minute. Flowering time mainly Nov.-Apr. Cypselae cylindrical, 1.5 mm long, hairy on ribs.
Rounded, softly woody, thinly white-woolly shrublet to 80 cm. Leaves linear, margins revolute, sometimes toothed, usually in axillary tufts. Flower heads radiate, in dense clusters on branched corymbs, yellow, involucres calycled.