Subshrub or shrub, occasionally described as a woody herb, 1–4.5 m high, much branched, forming a rounded bush, with many virgate stems, aromatic; branches brown, cylindrical, striate, glabrescent; young branches pubescent and glandular. Leaves aromatic, sessile or subsessile, petiole to 2 mm long, blade lanceolate or narrowly obovate, 2–7 cm long, 0.8–2.5 cm wide, base cuneate and sometimes auriculate, not decurrent, margins dentate with callose teeth or subentire, apex acute, pubescent, puberulous or subglabrous and glandular on both surfaces. Capitula 4–7 mm long, in terminal dense paniculate corymbs; stalks of individual capitula 0–3 mm long; phyllaries with a pink streak, multiseriate, the inner deciduous after anthesis, ovate (outer) to linear (inner), 2.5–7 mm long, 0.2–1.7 mm wide, acute or obtuse and apiculate, ciliate, puberulous; receptacle a narrow (< 1 mm) raised concave cup, honeycombed with ridges. Florets pink or mauve, or white with purple styles, slightly aromatic; outer florets in several series, filiform, tube 2.5–4 mm long with 4 lobes 0.1–0.3 mm long; style 3.5–4.3 mm long with filiform branches; inner florets 3–4, tube 3.2–5 mm long, lobes 0.5–0.7 mm long, not glandular; anthers 1.7–2.7 mm long with thin tails and an ovate appendage; style 5.3–8 mm long, seemingly undivided or with closely parallel branches, papillose. Achenes cylindrical, 0.7–1.1 mm long, glabrous or slightly puberulous, ribbed; pappus of white to pale brown bristles 2–3.5 mm long. Fig. 73 (page 361).
