Compact shrub to c. 1(–1.5) m high; branchlets glabrous, resinous. Leaves obovate to spathulate, 5–14 mm long, 2–8 mm wide, glabrous, resinous, concolorous or slightly paler beneath, entire or rarely shallowly crenate; margin flat. Capitula terminal, solitary, sessile or subsessile, 13–32 mm diam.; involucre conical, 6–9 mm long; bracts 4–8-seriate, graduating, glabrous, resinous, conspicuously darker (often purplish) toward apex, margin often minutely ciliate. Ray florets 7–13, white, ligules 4–12 mm long; disc florets 12–18, yellow. Cypsela cylindric, 4–6-ribbed, 2–3 mm long, sericeous; pappus bristles white to straw-coloured, 5–8 mm long. Flowers Aug.–Oct.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, MSB, RobP, MuF. Also WA, SA, NSW. Locally common in mallee woodlands on sandy loam, sometimes slightly saline soils in flat country or on low dunes.
