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Leaves discolorous, sessile, mostly 5–15 x 0.5–2.8 cm., linear-elliptic to narrowly oblong-lanceolate or narrowly panduriform-lanceolate, attenuate-acute or shortly tapering obtuse to the apex, the lamina narrowing slightly from below the middle before expanding briefly into a semi-amplexicaul auriculate base, margins serrulate to subentire; upper surface dark-green and scabrous or scabridulous-araneose, the indumentum a mixture of stiff patent hairs and sparse appressed fine white araneose hairs; lower surface densely brownish, araneose-lanate, the indumentum of appressed fine matted hairs interspersed with few to numerous patent-pilose hairs.
Outer phyllaries 5–11 mm. long including an attenuate or caudate-aristate apex 2–6 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate or oblong with a caudate apical appendage, fimbriate-dendculate on the margins especially in the upper part; inner phyllaries up to c. 12 mm. long, tapering lorate, grading into the receptacular paleae, margins membranous, often purplish and fimbriate-denticulate about the apex, sometimes the inner phyllary apices expanded-ovate and appendage-like.
Disk-floret corollas creamy-white, mostly 8–12 mm. long, narrowly tubular below, abruptly dilated into a subcylindric-campanulate deeply lobed limb 5–6 mm. long, limb somewhat swollen near the base, lobes 3.5–5 mm. long, linear.
Capitula 1–7, solitary and terminal on the stem and short apical branches, apparently subsessile being subtended by 1–4 large leaf-like bracts up to c. 5 cm. long which overtop the capitula.
Achenes 5–7 x 2–3.5 mm., subcylindric, 5-angled, obscurely ribbed on the angles, minutely puberulous, carpopodium swollen; pappus of caducous scale-like barbellate setae 6–8 mm. long.
Stems annual, 1-several, simple or branching above, leafy to the apex, leaves diminishing in size and number and drying early on the lower stem, coarsely pilose-pubescent.
Involucres mostly 10–15 x 7–12 mm., spreading to c. 25 mm. wide when mature, becoming broadly campanulate and truncate at the base, araneose-lanate.
An erect robust suffrutex to c. 60 cm. tall, from a woody rootstock with numerous spreading, thong-like roots.
Receptacular paleae similar to the inner phyllaries.
Ray-florets absent.
