Perennial herb or shrub, 20–100 cm high; stem woody, much branched, the branches terete, tomentose but glabrescent, usually densely beset with leaves and often with marcescent leaves as well. Leaves narrowly lanceolate or linear, sessile, 0.4–2.5(–5.5) cm long, 0.1–0.8 cm wide, base half-amplexicaul, margins entire and revolute, apex acute, sparsely to densely tomentose. Capitula 2–4.5 mm long, heterogamous, in dense (sub-)globose cymes arranged in terminal leafy corymbs, all axes tomentose; stalks of individual capitula to 1.5 mm long; receptacle fimbriae to 1 mm; phyllaries pale green, pale yellow or silvery yellow with darker apices, 4–5-seriate, ovate to oblong, 1–3.5 mm long, the outermost smallest with some indument near the base, the inner glabrous and sparsely glandular, apex obtuse or eroded. Florets pale yellow, becoming orange when dead; outer florets 7–20, tube filiform, 2.2–2.6 mm long, lobes 0.2–0.4 mm long and glandular, style 2.4–2.8 mm long; inner florets 2–10, tube cylindrical to narrowly infundibuliform, 1.8–2.4 mm long, lobes 0.3–0.5 mm long, glandular, anthers 0.6–1 mm long, style 2.5–2.9 mm long. Achenes ellipsoid, 0.4–0.7 mm long, glabrous and papillose; pappus 1.5–2.5 mm long, barbellate, caducous in groups. Fig. 87/8–14 (page 411).
