Perennial, pale green, densely glandular-hairy and sticky shrublet, with stiff, densely leafy branches. Leaves are alternate, rigid and flat, gradually thinning to a fine, spiny apex, and bearing one to three spinescent lobes at the base on each side. Heads are yellow, shortly pedunculate and crowded in dense cymes. Involucre is obconical, with glandular bracts that are scarious with a green midvein. Fruits are densely hairy achenes.