Shrub to 4 m, without lignotuber; stems 1 or few, erect. Stems glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 3-6 mm long; lamina elliptic, 3-15 cm long, 10-30 mm wide, obtuse to truncate, mucronate, closely tomentose below; margins flat to slightly revolute, dentate; teeth 5-20 each side, obliquely triangular, 5-7 mm long. Inflorescence on short lateral branchlet; involucral bracts narrowly ovate to linear, to 8 mm long, silky-villous; floral bracts hirsute both sides; flowers 32-36 per head. Perianth gently upcurved, 13-17 mm long, pale yellow, curled-villous in lower half, hirsute distally, with long hairs on limb; limb 1.8-2 mm long. Pistil bowed downwards with upturned apex, 17-20 mm long, pale yellow, silky above ovary, glabrous distally; pollen presenter narrowly ovoid, 0.3 mm long. Follicles 1 or 2, very obliquely ovate, 10-13 mm long, hirsute mainly on lower outer margin.