Shrub, 1.7-4 m tall; stems 1-1.5 cm diam. at base, hispidulous to scabrous with hairs 0.1 mm long. Leaves lanceolate to ovate; blades 5-17.5 cm long, 1.5-10 cm wide, acute to acuminate, the base obtuse (sometimes shortly attenuate), the margin serrate, the upper surface weakly to moderately hispidulous with hairs 0.5 mm long, the lower surface strongly hispidulous with hairs 0.5 mm long, with veins conspicuously reticulate; petioles 3-25 mm long, to 1.5 mm diam., scabrous. Inflorescence a racemose (n3parly spicate) panicle of 10-180 heads; peduncles 0.5-1 mm long. Heads radiate; involucre cupulate, 3-5 mm diam., the bracts 8-9, obovate, 3-5 mm long, 2-4.8 mm wide, abaxially strigose with hairs 0.1 mm long, the upper ?/3 of margin ciliate; paleas absent; ray florets 3-5, the corollas 2 mm long, 0.6 mm diam., the 3-4 lobes 0.5 mm long, the styles 3 mm long with branches 1.8 mm long; disc florets 11-14, the corollas 2.5 mm long, the throat 2 mm long and 1.5 mm dianm., the lobes 0.6 mm long, comose at apex, the tube 0.3 mm diam., the anthers 1.8 mm long, the style 5 mm long, the ovary sterile, 2.5 mm long, 0.3 mm diam., apically villous with hairs to 0.8 mm long. Achenes 2.2-2.7 mm long, 1.9-2 mm diam., pubescent on the upper 1/3 with hairs 0.1 mm long; pappus absent. Chromosome number n = 16.
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