It is indigenous to the southern Cape region of South Africa, where it occurs in Fynbos and Renosterveld vegetation, from the West Coast, eastwards as far as Grahamstown.

[1] Oedera imbricata is a small (50 cm high), sprawling shrublet.

The leaves are small (15 x 5 mm), hard and stiff, with a prominent midrib.

They are 40mm wide, consist of more than one individual flowerheads (a diagnostic character), of which the outer ones have visible ray-florets.

[2][3] It resembles Oedera capensis, which however has longer, spreading, marginally-toothed leaves.