Erect or spreading shrub to 3 m high; branchlets densely cottony, not viscid. Leaves sweetly spicily aromatic, spreading, narrow-lanceolate, c. acute, 22–80 mm long, 3.5–8.5 mm wide, glabrescent, c. glossy and somewhat viscid above, densely white-cottony beneath (midrib glabrescent), margin flat; petiole 2–8 mm long. Inflorescences corymbose, 3.5–7 cm diam. Capitula 30–200, dull-yellow, turbinate, 3.5–4.5 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide; involucral bracts 19–24(–28), innermost spathulate, with lamina elliptic, 0.5–1 mm long, suberect, flat, white, margin entire; receptacle bracts absent; female florets (1–)2–4(–5); hermaphrodite florets 6–16. Cypsela pyriform, c. 1 mm long, sparsely papillose; pappus bristles 2–3 mm long, apex clavate Flowers Oct.–Dec.
GipP, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, MonT, VAlp. Also NSW, Tas.(Bass Strait islands). In Victoria largely confined to moist near-coastal forests east from Lakes Entrance area, often on freely-draining coarse-grained soils, with isolated records further west in forest near Licola, and on small islands west of Wilsons Promontory.
