Shrubs. Stems ca. 1 m tall, not scandent; branches slender, divaricate, striate, densely glandular villous in upper part. Leaves abaxially pale green, adaxially green, ovate or ovate-oblong, 9-12 × 3.5-4 cm, abaxially sparsely villous and glandular, adaxially subglabrous, basally 3-veined, sparsely villous on veins, base rounded, margin mucronate-serrate, apex long acuminate. Synflorescence of divaricate terminal corymbs. Capitula 9-15-flowered; involucre campanulate, ca. 5 mm; phyllaries 12-15, unequal, linear, apically much obtuse, 2-or 3-seriate, outer phyllaries very short, sparsely glandular villous; corollas tubular, ca. 4.5 mm, glandular. Achenes black, striate, ca. 2.5 mm, sparsely villous; pappus off-white, 4.5-5 mm, barbellate. Fl. and fr. Jul-Mar. 2n = 20*.
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