Erect shrub to 2 m high; branchlets densely cottony, not viscid. Leaves spreading, oblanceolate, 7–35 mm long, 2.5–9.5 mm wide, glabrous above, densely cottony beneath, greyish or yellow-resinous, apex rounded to truncate, margins flat or slightly recurved, or minutely toothed; petioles to 1.5 mm long. Inflorescences corymbose to hemispherical, (1–)4.5–9 cm diam. Capitula (50–)150–300, yellowish-brown, cylindric, 3.5–4.5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide; involucral bracts 15–17, innermost spathulate, with lamina elliptic, 1–1.5 mm long, suberect or reflexed, flat, white, margin irregular; receptacle bracts absent (rarely 1); female florets absent; hermaphrodite florets 4–6. Cypsela obloid, 1–1.5 mm long, densely papillose; pappus bristles c. 2.5 mm long, apex narrowly clavate. Flowers Nov.–Jan.
GipP, Gold, EGL, EGU, HSF, OtR, HFE, VAlp. Also NSW. Scattered but locally common in lowland to foothill moist open-forests and woodlands eastward from Noojee area.
