Shrub or small tree up to 4 m tall. Stems densely tomentose and glandular, with longer straight hairs. Lvs scabrid on upper surface, with dense white tomentum on lower, apetiolate, linear, with revolute margins obscuring most of lower surface, 7-20 × 0.5-1 mm. Corymbs aggregated into ± flat-topped or rounded infls. Outer involucral bracts glabrous or sparsely hairy outside, ± orbicular, transparent, but with milky white lamina, 0.8-1.5 mm long; inner bracts glabrous, elliptic-ovate, erect and usually with milky white lamina, sometimes pink in bud, 2.5-3.5 mm long. Florets c. 4-7 per capitulum; receptacular scales few, narrower than inner bracts, transparent or white only in the erect lamina, ± = corolla. Achenes sparsely hairy, cylindric-obovoid, 0.5-0.8 mm long; pappus barbellate, narrow at apex.
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