The leaves are set alternately along the stem, densely crowded, at an upward angle, without a stalk, narrowly inverted egg-shaped, about 11 mm (0.43 in) long and 3 mm (0.12 in) wide, with an entire margin that is somewhat curved upwards, the lower surface with long hairs, and the upper surface hairless.

Surrounding each flower head are three to four rows of unruly arranged bracts (or phyllaries) that together form the so-called involucre, which is up to 15 mm (0.59 in) in diameter.

These surround numerous bisexual disc florets with a yellow corolla of about 6 mm (0.24 in) long, hairy in the middle part.

In the center of each corolla are five anthers merged into a tube, through which the style grows when the floret opens, hoovering up the pollen on its shaft.

Surrounding the base of the corolla are many, yellowish white, serrated, more or less deciduous pappus bristles, all about equal in length at 6 mm (0.24 in).

It also has a likeness to Polyarrhena imbricata, which lacks the woolly hairs, large involucral bracts, and has white ray florets, tinged purple on the underside.

It was recognized as a distinct species by Jürke Grau [de; es] in his 1973 Revision of the genus Felicia (Asteraceae).