Wiry diffuse undershrub, about 1 ft. high; branches terete, hoary and leafy above, glabrate and marked by the crowded scars of fallen leaves below, at length smooth. Leaves linear, acute, apiculate, sessile, not narrowed at the base, closely hoary-tomentose at least beneath, sometimes glabrous above, 1/4– 3/4 in. long by 1/30– 1/10 in. wide, coriaceous, entire, nearly flat. Capitula turbinate 1/3– 1/2 in. long, subsessile, solitary, terminal, not overtopped by the upper leaves. Scales of the involucre obtuse or subacute, glabrous or nearly so, straight, straw-coloured; inner linear, caducous; outer successively shorter and more lanceolate-oblong. Receptacle somewhat elevated, flat, naked. Achenes glabrous (?) (terete, elongate, albido-sericeous, according to Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 398).
