Erect shrub (20–) 30–70 (–100) cm high. Vegetative parts strongly aromatic, pilose to villous, densely glandular. Leaves oblong, elliptic or rarely oblanceolate, those of main branches 20–60 mm long, 8–23 mm wide (upper leaves smaller), decurrent at base, entire or serrate, acute. Capitula usually in corymbose clusters on lateral branches; involucre 8–14 mm long; outer and median bracts pilose, densely glandular; receptacle glabrous, eglandular. Florets 45–80. Marginal florets ligulate; ligule 1.5–3 mm long, regularly or irregularly 3-or 4-lobed; corolla glabrous, non-glandular. Disc floret corollas 6–7 mm long, 5-lobed, glabrous, non-glandular. Achenes 2–2.5 mm long, without ribs, sericeous.
On well-drained, rocky, upland sites; on dry, sandy, rocky soils with Triodia tussocks and scattered Eucalyptus and Acacia species, Eremophila and Senna shrubs.
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