An erect coarse perennial herb or subshrub, 0.3-3 m tall from a woody rootstock. Stems usually annual, becoming ± woody below, 1-several, branching above and often tuberculate on the young growth, leafy, softly whitish-pubescent to tomentellous, less densely so below, or glabrescent, sometimes tawny-velvety on young growth; hairs short-stalked flagelliform, sometimes intermixed with scattered longer pilose hairs. Leaves petiolate to subsessile, petioles to c. 7 cm long; lamina to c. 26.5 x 7.5 cm., lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, apex acute, base broadly cuneate to attenuate, or leaves ovate and rounded to subcordate at the base, margins undulate and coarsely serrate with sharply callose-tipped teeth; upper surface drying dark-green and somewhat harshly puberulous or glabrescent, lower surface greenish-grey tomentose to sparsely pilose or glabrescent and glandular. Capitula solitary on branches, or few in much reduced corymbiform cymes on short side-branches or at the stem apex, capitula shortly stalked. Involucres mostly 15-30 x 20-45 mm, broadly campanulate to cyathiform Phyllaries apically appendaged; the outer phyllaries greenish, 8-13 mm long including a tapering appendage 6-12 times as long as the phyllary base, or appendage ovate-lanceolate, outermost phyllaries sometimes extending onto capitulum stalk; middle phyllaries increasing from 8 to 22 mm long (including appendage), with appendages to 12 x 12 mm and lanceolate to broadly ovate, creamy-white, sometimes reflexed, decreasing in size towards the inside; inner phyllaries 12-20 x 2-3.5 mm, narrowly oblong with greatly reduced appendages. Florets c. 120-300 per capitulum Corollas whitish or mauve, 12-24 mm long, the tube long and slender before abruptly widening into a short cylindric limb exserted above the pappus. Achenes dark-brown, 4-5.5 mm long, subcylindric to narrowly turbinate, 10-ribbed, or 20-ribbed with the development of secondary ribs, hispid-strigose, glandular; pappus consisting of an outer whorl of short linear, or minute fimbriate scales, and several inner whorls of caducous setae, setae barbellate on the margins and increasing to 10-15 mm long inside, the innermost flattened, the outer subulate.
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A shrub that has soft wood. It grows 2 m tall. The leaves are alternate and broadly oval. They have strongly wavy edges. The flowers are in several large flower heads on long stalks. They are white and mauve. The have several loose bracts around them.
Subshrub, up to 1.5 m high. Involucral bracts with large ovate-rotundate, apiculate and recurved appendage. Flowers white or pinkish; November and February to July.
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