Rounded shrubs to 1 m tall. Stems branched, white-hairy. Leaves alternate, obovate, to 12 mm long, to 3.5 mm wide, margins entire or few-toothed near apex, sticky, green and glabrous above, grey- to white-woolly below, almost sessile. Capitula terminal, solitary or clustered, to 3 cm across, without stalks; winter to spring. Ray florets mauve or white. Disk florets yellow, cream or purplish. Achenes cylindrical, 3–4 mm long, hairy. Pappus bristles white.
SE Australia.
Source: (2002). Dahlia. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Updated by: Niels Klazenga, February 2018