Somewhat woody, scandent, slender epiphyte with few branches; stems terete, striate, sparsely to coarsely hirsute. Leaves opposite; blades ovate, to 9.5 cm long and 4 cm wide, the base rounded with a slight acumination, trinervate, the margins with few sharp small teeth, the apex short-to rather long-acuminate, the surface sparsely short-hirsute; petioles short, distinct, 3-8 mm long. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, laxly corymbose, the ultimate branches 5-20 mm long, slender, puberulous. Heads 8-10 mm high with ca. 20 florets; involucral bracts ca. 25, subimbricate, in ca. 3 series, 2.5-10.0 mm long, ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, sharply acute, glabrous to slightly puberulous on outer surface, weakly bicostate; corolla 6.0-6.5 mm long, glabrous with glands on outer surface of lobes, the lobes very small, slightly longer than wide; enlarged style tips ca. 0.8 mm long and 0.3 mm wide. Achenes ca. 2 mm long, prismatic, glabrous; pappus mostly 4-6 mm long with ca. 30-35 bristles. Pollen ca. 20 , in diameter.
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