Plants with scattered hairs c. 0.5–1.5 mm long. Leaves to c. 13 cm long, 2-or 3-pinnatisect, with primary segments elliptic to orbicular in outline. Capitulum 5–12 mm diam.; involucre 2.5–3 mm long; bracts numerous, narrowly oblong to narrowly oblong-elliptic, rounded apically, with a narrow pale or purplish hyaline margin. Marginal florets to c. 100. Disc floret corolla c. 2 mm long, c. 0.3 mm diam. Achenes (excluding spine) obovate in profile, c. 1.8–2.2 mm long, woolly apically; body 0.5 mm wide; wings/margins c. 0.6 mm wide, plane, entire, obtuse to rounded apically, thick, prominently transversely ridged; stylar spine c. 2–3.5 mm long.