Erect or clambering pubescent perennials, the much branched stems to 4 m. long. Leaves densely sericeous, especially below, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, apically attenuate, basally attenuate, 2-10 cm. long, 1-3.5 cm. wide; petioles 1-4 mm. long. Inflorescences of terminal and axillary stramineous to whitish ovoid heads, 5-15 mm. long, 4-12 mm. broad, the peduncles to 9 cm. long, branched or unbranched, naked or leafy (when leafy, the heads may appear sessile). Flowers perfect; bracts and bracteoles subequal, ovate, acuminate to aristate, 2-3.5 mm. long; sepals 5, narrowly oblong, 1-3 nerved, scarcely indurate, 4-5.5 mm. long, with basal hairs almost exceeding the sepals; stamrens 5, united below into a tube, the lacerate pseudostaminodia exceeding the anthers; ovary obovoid to globose; style 1, 2-3 times as long as the globose stigma. Fruit an obovoid utricle to 1 mm. long; mature seeds not seen.
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