Heads large, c. 30 mm long; involucral bracts white or pale to deep pink, the outermost pale to medium brown, and always descending on the peduncle and passing into scale-tipped leaves for 20-60 mm below the head; receptacle with fimbrils about half as long as the ovaries; achenes compressed, with broad semipellucid marginal wings and an incipient wing up each face, glabrous.
Sparsely branched, thinly white-woolly shrublet to 60 cm. Leaves weakly dimorphic, linear and ascending below. Flower heads discoid, solitary on long peduncles bearing short, adpressed leaves, the uppermost becoming dry and papery, yellow, bracts papery, white to pink; cypselas flattened and winged.
Grows in rocky places, often in the crevices of cliffs.
Recorded only from the mountains of the SW. Cape, from the south Cedarberg to the Peninsula and Kogelberg, Caledon division.
