Branchlets woolly, usually with sessile glands and short setae (to 0.75 mm long) covered the dense woolly hair. Leaves linear, 5–13 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide; margins strongly recurved; upper surface glabrous, scabrous, sometimes sparsely woolly and or glandular; lower surface with long spreading woolly hair extruding from within the recurved leaf margins. Capitula axillary, sessile, often forming a spicate conflorescence along the stem; bracts acute, 3–5 mm long, tomentose, sometimes glandular. Ray florets white. Flowers Sep.–Jan.
Gold, HSF, HNF. Apparently restricted to dry open woodland on shallow soils around St Andrews, north of Melbourne. There are historic records of this taxon from Campaspe River, and the Loddon and Strathbogie Ranges, suggesting it was once more widespread.
Populations around St Andrews appear to consist largely of root-suckering plants.
