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Leaves discolorous, sessile, mostly 4–10 x 0.8–2.5 cm., narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, subacute at the apex, broadly cuneate to narrowly rounded sub-cordate below, semi-amplexicaul or sometimes narrowing slightly from below the middle before expanding into a subauriculate base; margins serrulate to subentire; upper surface dark-green, thinly araneose; lower surface appressed greyish araneose-lanate on both surfaces, often with scattered large brownish many-celled simple hairs.
Achenes to c. 5 mm. long, c. 2 mm. in diam., cylindric, obscurely 5-ribbed, glabrous sometimes sparsely finely puberulous at first, irregularly minutely pitted, carpopodium 5-lobed with a lobe at the base of each rib; pappus of caducous barbellate setae 4–5 mm. long.
Outer phyllaries from c. 4 mm. long, very narrowly triangular, spaced denticulate-pectinate on the margins; inner phyllaries to c. 7 mm. long, broadly triangular-ovate with membranous margins fimbriate denticulate about the apex.
Disk-floret corollas pale-yellowish to orange-coloured, mostly 5–7 mm. long, narrowly tubular below and abruptly dilated into a subcylindric-campanulate, deeply lobed limb, 2–3 mm. long, lobes c. 2 mm. long, linear.
Stems sparsely to much-branched, leafy, araneose-lanate or often sparsely so; indumentum a mixture of appressed fine whitish hairs and scattered large brownish patent hairs.
Involucres mostly 7–9 x 9–12 mm., increasing to c. 15 mm. wide, broadly campanulate, truncate at the base, densely araneose-lanate.
Capitula 3-many, solitary and terminal on leafy branches, stalks to c. 8 cm. long, ebracteate.
Receptacular paleae similar to the inner phyllaries, araneose-lanate outside.
An erect slender to bushy annual herb to c. 70 cm. tall.
Ray-florets absent.
