Erect dense rounded shrub to c. 1 m high; stems glabrous. Leaves glabrous, linear, 3–17(–20) mm long, 0.6–2.2 mm wide, entire, obtuse to acute. Inflorescence solitary and terminal on branchlets or in leafy corymbs; capitula campanulate, 11–16 mm long; involucral bracts lanceolate, oblanceolate to linear, glabrous or with a few white hairs on margins and apex,light brown-green becoming light brown with age, with a prominent brown-red or purple medial line, often purple along margins near apex. Florets 95–150, bright golden-yellow, 3.5–4.8 mm long. Cypselas obovate, compressed, 2–3 mm long, smooth with twin hairs. Recorded flowering in October in Victoria.
Native to South Africa. A population (presumably escaped from horticulture) was noted as established in a foreshore reserve in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton in 1997. Plants have since been removed.
