Distephanus anisochaetoides (Sond.) H.Rob. & B.Kahn

Scandent shrub or semi-climber to 3 m; stem ribbed, greyish, densely felted when young with shaggy hairs concealing large, sessile glands, glabrescent. Leaves alternate, broadly obovate to cuneate-rhomboid, (20-)30-70 x 10-35 mm, margins entire or irregularly coarsely toothed in distal half, 3(5)-nerved from base, acute to acuminate, base narrowed, felted when young, glabrescent, conspicuously gland-pitted beneath, petiole 5-15 mm long. Capitula in cymose panicles in upper axils on rigidly divaricate, flexuous branches, ±15 (to 20)-flowered. Involucre campanulate, 4-5 mm diam., bracts 3-or 4-seriate, imbricate, felted and with large, sessile glands, acute, margins membranous, ciliate, outer bracts ovate, ±1.5 mm long, inner elliptic-lanceolate, ±3 mm long, 3-veined. Florets whitish or buff, pale mauve to creamy-white, 3-4 mm long, corolla tube narrowly funnel-shaped, lobes linear, recurved, ±1.5 mm long. Anthers sagittate. Style up to 5 mm long, pilose or shortly hirsute distally and on branches, branches ±1 mm long. Cypselas cylindric, 8-to 10-ribbed, 1.5-2.0 mm long, sparsely hairy and with large, sessile glands; pappus biseriate, buff, scales 0.5-0.8 mm long, bristles ±4 mm long, clavate.