Scrambling or climbing shrub, up to 8 m; stem ribbed, puberulous and glandular, glabrescent. Leaves alternate, ovate to elliptic, 15-60 x 8-35 mm, 3-nerved from base, margins entire, often ± revolute, glabrous or puberulous and glabrescent, obscurely gland-pitted beneath, subacute to obtuse, base broadly cuneate or rounded, petiole up to 8 mm long. Capitula terminal on short leafy twigs or forming cymose panicles, ±9-flowered. Involucre obconic-campanulate, 3-4 mm diam., bracts ±4-seriate, imbricate, puberulous, margins membranous, ciliate, outer bracts narrowly triangular, ±3 mm long, inner linear-lanceolate, 3-4 mm long, acute. Florets white to creamy white, 5-7 mm long, corolla tube funnelshaped, lobes linear-oblong, 1.5-2.0 mm long. Anthers sagittate, 2 mm long. Style up to 4 mm long, pilose or shortly hirsute distally and on branches, branches ±2 mm long. Cypselas subcylindric, 8-to 10-ribbed, 2.0-2.5 mm long, sparsely hairy; pappus biseriate, buff, scales 0.5-0.8 mm long, bristles 4-6 mm long, acute.
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