Suffruticose, erect, much-branched, 1–4 ft. high; branches virgate, terete, tomentose above, glabrate below, leafy. Leaves lanceolate or linear, acute, sessile, cordate-amplexicaul, woolly especially beneath, entire, margins often revolute, 1/3–1 in. long by 1/20– 1/4 in. wide. Capitula campanulate-oblong, 1/12 in. long by 1/16 in. wide, 10–20-flowered, subsessile, crowded in dense corymbose-globose cymes, 3/4–1 1/2 in. diameter. Scales of the involucre pauciseriate, unequal, imbricate, of a shining deep straw colour; inner oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse or eroded at tip, coriaceous below; outer broadly ovate or elliptical, thinly woolly outside. Receptacle with conspicuous subulate orange-coloured fimbrillæ exceeding the ovaries. Carpels glabrous. hermaphrodite fl. 4–7.
