Perennial (?) herb, to about 0.5 m tall. Stems woody and branching towards base, green with reddish-brown lines, or brown, hairy. Leaves deltoid-reniform to reniform, occasionally with one or two lateral pinnae; lamina 10-24 x 12-26 mm, green, densely covered with pilose glandular hairs on both surfaces and on margins; apex obtuse; margin dentate; base subcordate to cordate; petiole 6-32 mm long, densely covered with glandular hairs; auricles conspicuous and running up petiole, or rarely absent. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, few (2-10) to many (8-24), rarely as many as 46 per stem, in a lax panicle; peduncles 7-35 mm long, glabrous to sparsely hairy, glabrescent or densely hairy, bracteate, bracts 2.0-3.5 mm long. Involucre calyculate, calyculus bracts with glandular hairs; phyllaries 8-10, 4.0-5.0(-7.0) mm long, glabrous or hairy; margins scarious. Ray florets 5, rarely 7, 6.0-8.5 mm long; limb 3.0-6.0 mm long, 4-veined. Disc florets 18-24; corolla c. 4.0 mm long. Cypselae obovate, compressed sometimes with strong median midrib when mature, margined, brown, 2.0-3.0 mm long, glabrous. Pappus to base of disc corolla lobes (c. 3.5 mm long).
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