White-woolly shrublet to 60 cm. Leaves oblanceolate, discolorous, leathery, margins revolute, toothed and spiny. Flower heads radiate, solitary at the branch tips, yellow.
Sprawling shrublet with prostrate branches and short erect branchlets to 20 cm. Leaves ovate, toothed, roughly felted, with large stipules. Flowers in terminal clusters, yellow, with inflated papery calyx.