Subshrubs, 0.5-1.2 m tall, much branched. Leaves alternate; petiole 2-5 mm, wingless, strigose; leaf blade ovate or ovate-lanceolate, cauline leaf blade 2.5-5.5 × 1-3 cm, subleathery, palmate-pinnate veined, abaxially villous or tomentose, adaxially glabrous, base cordate, margin entire to callose-denticulate, ciliate, apex acuminate. Capitula subsessile or shortly pedunculate, arranged in leafy panicles, 3-flowered; involucre cylindric, ca. 3 mm in diam.; phyllaries ca. 6-seriate, subleathery, abaxially glabrous or apically pubescent, outer phyllaries ovate, 2-3 mm, inner narrowly oblong to oblong, ca. 1.2 cm. Florets bisexual, chasmogamous, corollas white, tubular, ca. 1.6 cm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes unequal, anther appendages rounded. Achenes subfusiform, ca. 6 mm, ribbed, densely sericeous; pappus white, ca. 8 mm. Fl. Nov-Jan, Feb-Jun, Sep-Oct.
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