Perennial herb, woody herb or shrub, 0.4–2 m high; stems wiry, distally branched, with dense leaf scars and some marcescent leaves, scabridulous but glabrescent. Leaves sessile, linear to lanceolate, 0.8–5(–7) cm long, 0.1–1.4 cm wide, base ± auriculate, margins entire to dentate with callose teeth, often inrolled, apex acute and mucronate, scabrid above, scabrid on midrib and veins beneath and arachnoid-pubescent or rarely glabrous in between, often glandular. Capitula 4–6 mm long, several together in slightly lax hemispherical cymes, several of these united into a terminal, lax, leafy corymb; stalks of individual capitula 2–7 mm long, pubescent and often glandular; phyllaries 3–4-seriate, ± 24, pale green, the outermost shorter than the inner, lanceolate, 2–4 mm long, 0.5–0.9 mm wide, margins hyaline and often fimbriate, apex often reddish, acute and fimbriate, the outermost pubescent, the inner more glabrous; receptacle flat to convex, toothed. Marginal florets yellow, 40–42, tube 1.2–2 mm long, ray spreading, 2.2–3.3 mm long, 0.5–0.7 mm wide (but seeming less wide when inrolled) with obtuse or notched apex, style 2.3–4 mm long; central florets yellow, 10–15, tube 2.3–2.8 mm long and minutely pilose, lobes 0.8–1.2 mm long, glandular; anthers 1.3–1.6 mm long with triangular distal appendages; style 2.8–5 mm long with thickened flattened triangular papillose branches. Achenes flattened, ovoid, 0.6–0.8 mm long, sparsely pubescent; pappus of many white setae 2.5–3.5 mm long.
