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Shrub or woody herb, 0.5–2.5 m high, much branched; bark smooth, grey; branches 4–5-angled or -ribbed, minutely glandular, viscid. Leaves bright green, often shiny with viscid exudate, petiolate, petiole 0.2–1.7 cm long, glandular, blade lanceolate, 3–14 cm long, 0.5–3(–4) cm wide, base cuneate to attenuate, margins entire, often undulate and sometimes slightly inrolled, apex attenuate or acuminate, minutely glandular, viscid. Capitula 3–6 mm long, several united in tight hemispherical cymes, several or many of which are united in terminal, leafy, dense corymbs; stalks of individual capitula 0.1–1.3 cm long, glandular; phyllaries yellow-green, ± 18, 3–5-seriate, the outermost shortest, lanceolate, 1–4 mm long, 0.5–1.6 mm wide, the margins hyaline, apex obtuse, viscid; receptacle flat to toroid, slightly toothed. Marginal florets yellow, 16–36 in one or two rows, tube 1.3–2 mm long, tubular, minutely dentate at the apex or with a ray to 0.2 mm long, or with a ray and 1–2 lateral teeth; style 1.7–3.2 mm long, with linear branches; central florets yellow, 7–9, tube 2–3.2 mm long, lobes 0.5–0.9 mm long; anthers 1.2–1.5 mm long with narrowly triangular appendages; style 2.6–4.4 mm long with widened papillose branches. Achenes of ray florets cylindrical, 0.9–1 mm long, pubescent; achenes of disc florets aborted, 0.4–1 mm long; pappus of minutely barbellate setae 2–3.3 mm long. Fig. 107.(page 515)