Shrub 2-4 m tall; stems 4-5 cm diam. at base, tomentose-lanate (less often villous) with hairs to 1 mm long. Leaves lanceolate to ovate; blades 7-19 cm long, 2-10 cm wide, acuminate, the base attenuate (less often subobtuse), the margin serrate, the upper surface strigose with hairs 0.3 mm long, the lower surface tomentose (rarely strigose) with hairs to 1 mm long; petioles 1-5.5 mm long, to 2 mm diam., tomentose-lanate (rarely strigose). Inflorescence a racemose panicle of 30-100 heads; peduncles 0.5-1.5 mm long. Heads radiate; involucre cupulate, 3-7 mm across, the bracts 7-8, narrowly to broadly ovate, 3-4.5 mm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, abaxially strigose toward the apex with hairs 0.2 mm long, the margin ciliate; paleas absent; ray florets 3-5, the corollas 1.6 mm long, 0.5 mm diam., the 3 lobes each 0.1 mm long, the styles 2 mm long with branches 0.8 mm long; disc florets 11-14, the corollas 2.7-3.3 mm long, the throat 2 mm long and 1.2 mm diam., the lobes 0.5 mm long, strigillose at apex, the tube 0.3 mm diam., the anthers 1.5 mm long, the style undivided, the ovary sterile, 2 mm long, 0.2 mm diam., apically villous with hairs to 1 mm long. Achenesi 1.3-1.7 mm long, 1 mm diam., apically with an S-shaped neck, glabrous; pappus absent. Chromosome number unknown.
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