Erect, 50 – 80 cm tall, woody shrublet. Stems many, green, intricately much branched, with thin, striate, pale green, sparsely pubescent to glabrescent branchlets. Leaves  sessile, concolorous, green or glaucous or sparsely pubescent and punctate glandular on either side; lower leaves oblanceolate or narrowly  elliptic to linear, 1 – 5 (-7) cm long,  2 – 5 (-8) mm wide, entire or few-toothed, acute; uppermost cauline leaves  linear, 9 – 12 mm long, 2 – 3  mm wide, acute. Capitula  many, terminal on  branchlets to form paniculate synflorescence.  Involucre  ± obconical or narrowly campanulate,  narrowed to the base, 8 – 10  mm long,  6 – 10 mm across, pale-green. Phyllaries  5 – 7-seriate, tightly imbricate, white hairy; outermost phyllaries triangular-ovate, 2 – 3 mm long,  1 – 1.5 mm  wide, acuminate; median phyllaries  narrowly elliptic, 3 – 10 mm long, 1.5 – 2.5 mm wide; innermost phyllaries linear-oblong, 10 – 12 mm long, 1 – 1.5 mm wide, glabrescent.  Receptacle with 6 – 8 mm long, silvery, subulate bristles. Corolla  pinkish purple with reddish-tinge, 10 – 15 mm long, glandulose,  tube 5 – 8 mm long, limb 6 – 8 mm long with  2 – 3 mm long  lobes. Cypselas oblong or cylindrical, (3-) 4 – 5 (-6) mm long,  brown, glandulose, obtusely ridged, apical crown dentate-lacerate. Pappus white to dirty white, outer bristles up to 4 (-5) mm long, feathery, sometimes absent; inner bristles  ca 10 mm long.`