Slender, often thinly woolly, densely leafy, erect shrublet to 1.5 m. Leaves ascending, narrowly oblong, sharply toothed, 15-60 mm long. Flower heads radiate, solitary on short to long, axillary peduncles crowded at branch tips, yellow, ± 15-35 mm diam.; bracts all broad, golden papery; pappus scales 5, uniseriate.