Prostrate or straggling shrub with stems up to ± 1 m. long and 10 mm. diam., branched; branchlets rather slender to stout, up to c. 15 cm. long. Lvs ∞, densely imbricate; lamina (10)-20-(25) × 2.5-3 mm., narrowly linear-spathulate, coriac., gradually narrowed to sheath; upper surface rather densely clad in soft white not appressed hairs, midrib concealed by hairs; lower surface similarly clad, but more densely so; apex obtuse to subacute, us. apiculate; margins strongly revolute, but not to midrib. Sheath broad, membr., hairy. Scape glandular-pubescent, slender, up to ± 15 cm. long; bracts ∞, lower lflike, lamina ± 10 mm. long expanding into sheath. Capitula ± 25 mm. diam.; phyll. several, narrow-linear, c. 5 mm. long, glandular-pubescent, ± clad in floccose hairs Ray-florets many, narrow, clawed, limb ± 6 mm. long; disk-florets ± 4 mm. long, tubular. Achenes subcylindric, 2-2.5 mm. long, ribs with rather sparse hairs. Pappus-hairs sordid-white, up to c. 5 mm. long.

n = 54

2n = 108