DistributionIn the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i.

Habit

Suffruticose perennial herbs; stems erect, 3-20 dm long. 

Leaves

Leaves usually gray to grayish green, linear, lanceolate, elliptic to narrowly ovate, (2.3-)3-6.5(-8) cm long, (0.6-)0.8-1.5 cm wide, densely strigillose especially on lower surface, margins entire to serrate, petioles 0.5-1.5 cm long, with winged margins. 

Flowers

Heads solitary or in clusters of 2-3; outer involucral bracts ovate to oblong, (3-)3.8-6.5(-11) mm long, 2-2.6 mm wide, strigillose, apex acute to rounded; chaffy bracts tan throughout; ray florets 8-10 per head, rays oblong, (9-)10-15 mm long, 4-6.2 mm wide; disk florets 40-60 per head, corollas 5-merous, 3.2-4.1 mm long; anthers 1.6-2 mm long; pappus of scales forming an uneven corona tipped with short, deciduous awns. 

Fruit

Achenes nearly smooth, often with a fringe of scales along the upper outer rim, ray achenes 2.2-2.8(-3.2) mm long, ca. 3 mm wide, with wings ca. 0.5 mm long, disk achenes 2.2-3 mm long, 1.6-2.3 mm wide, with wings ca. 0.2 mm long. 

Chromosomes

2n = 30*