Depressed much-branched shrub occ. up to 5 dm. tall. Basal stems stout, branches with long-persistent lf-bases, final branchlets tomentose, c. 1-2 mm. diam. including lvs. Lvs imbricate, erect from appressed base, c. 2 mm. long, narrow-ovate, acute to obtuse, convex and bluntly keeled, concave below; dorsal surface tomentose, becoming glab. or nearly so; ventral surface densely clad in white to greyish woolly hairs. Capitula solitary, terminal, sessile, c. 1 cm. diam. Phyll. in 3 series, forming a turbinate involucre; outer short, tomentose; inner narrow-oblong, obtuse, scarious, stramineous to brownish. Florets 20-25, ♀ few; achenes 1-1·25 mm. long, compressed, pubescent; pappus-hairs subequal, up to 3 mm. long.

2n = 28

Ascending to erect, much-branched shrub, up to 50 cm tall; branchlets obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, 1-2 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs glabrous on lower, outer surface, densely white-tomentose on upper, inner surface, apetiolate, narrow-oblong, spathulate or narrow-ovate, slightly involute, obtuse and slightly cucullate, 2-2.5 × 0.3-1 mm. Lvs of seedlings and reversion shoots spreading, densely tomentose on both surfaces. Capitula 4-8 mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts glabrous, oblong, obtuse, not or slightly radiating, membranous, with pale and transparent lamina, and darker and opaque stereome, 3.5-5 mm long. Disc bright yellow. Achenes densely clothed in antrorse hairs, cylindric, slightly angled or compressed, 1.2-1.5 mm long.