A half-climbing, or scrambling shrubby plant. Stem terete, flexuous, striate, pubescent; branches widely spreading or deflexed. Leaves alternate, petioled, broadly-ovate, 3-5 nerved and subtruncate or deltoid at base, coarsely and bluntly incised, thinly downy, becoming glabrous, except on the nerves and petiole. Panicle ending the branches, its divisions spreading; ultimate pedicels longer than the heads, with 2-3 scattered bractlets. Heads many-flowered, homogamous. Involucre ovate, imbricated, in many rows, its scales lanceolate, appressed, shorter than the disc, minutely gland-dotted and rough-edged.
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