Deciduous or evergreen scrambling shrub 1–5 m high; stem much branched, branches virgate and arching; branchlets glabrous or rarely pubescent.. Leaves leathery, yellow-green, ovate to elliptic, 3–12 cm long, 1–5.5 cm wide, base attenuate, margins entire to obscurely dentate or serrate, apex acute to slightly acuminate, glabrous and without glands or with scattered hairs above and scabridulous beneath; petiole 5–15 mm long.. Glomerules 2–20 together in cymes or rarely solitary, terminal; individual glomerules globose and 9–16 mm across, with up to 130 capitula; capitula with 2 female and 2 male florets; phyllaries 3–4 mm long; paleae 4–6 mm long.. Flowers greenish turning white; female florets 1.5–2.5 mm long, glabrous or with a few glands; male florets 3–4 mm long, glabrous or rarely glandular.. Achenes of female florets broadly obovoid, 2.5–3.5 mm long, with twin-hairs; pappus of 2 lateral scales 1–2 mm long and 1–6 shorter scales on the abaxial side.. Achenes of male florets 0.5–1.5 mm long, with pappus of 7–14 flat scales 0.5–3 mm long.
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