Erect to spreading shrub to 2.5 m high; branchlets densely cottony, not viscid. Leaves spicily aromatic, spreading, oblong, narrow-elliptic or narrow-lanceolate, (10–)15–28 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, glabrescent above, densely white-cottony and glandular beneath, apex acute or obtuse, margin flat; petiole 2–5 mm long. Inflorescences hemispherical, 1.5–5 cm diam. Capitula (20–)60–80, dull-yellow, campanulate, 3–3.5 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide; involucral bracts 28–37, innermost spathulate, with lamina trullate, 1.5–2.5 mm long, reflexed, flat, white, margin entire; receptacle bracts absent (rarely 1); female florets 3–4; hermaphrodite florets 10–14. Cypsela pyriform, c. 1.3 mm long, densely papillose; pappus c. 2.5 mm long, apex clavate Flowers Dec.–Jan.
EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also NSW, ACT. Locally common in elevated, dry, often rocky forest and shrubland east from near Dargo.
