Much branched shrub, 1-7 m tall; stem striate, pubescent to tomentose with crisped hairs and gland-dotted, glabrescent, eglandular trichomes spurred. Leaves alternate, petiolate or upper leaves sessile, blade ovate or broadly lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 40-340 x 10-140 mm, apex subacute to obtuse, base truncate or cordate, often asymmetric, margins irregularly serrulate to coarsely serrate or dentate with callose-tipped teeth, upper surface sparsely pubescent to tomentose and glabrescent but often persistently pubescent along midvein, dark green, under surface densely pubescent to tomentose or rarely glabrous, greyish green, eglandular trichomes spurred with cap-cell attached subbasally; petiole 15-55(-70) mm long, with or without deciduous, orbicular auricles at base. Capitula in terminal corymbs, (2)5(6)-flowered. Involucre subcylindric becoming narrowly obconic, 3.0-6.5 mm diam. when pressed; bracts in 4 or 5 series, imbricate, glabrescent and gland-dotted distally, tips rugulose and villous when young, margins ciliate, leathery and green with darker, papery tips, outer bracts ovate, 0.5-1.0 x 0.5 mm, inner oblong-elliptic, subacute, 5-6 x 1 mm, caducous. Florets pale mauve to purple or white to creamy-white, corolla 6-7 mm long, glabrous and eglandular, tube funnel-shaped, lobes linear-lanceolate, 3-5 mm long. Anthers sagittate with triangular apical appendages. Style up to 6 mm long, pilose distally and on branches, branches 1.5-2.0 mm long. Cypselas sub-cylindric or obconic, ±8-ribbed, 3.5-4.0 mm long, appressed-sericeous on ribs, without glands; pappus biseriate, outer scales linear, barbellate, 1-2 mm long, persistent, inner bristles barbellate, 4-6 mm long, slender, whitish.
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A shrub or tree. It is erect and 3-6 m high. It usually only branches at the base. The stems and the underneath of the leaves are densely hairy. The leaf stalks are 5 cm long. The leaf blades are oval and 30 cm long by 12 cm wide. There are irregular pointed teeth along the edge. The flowers are in loose large clusters 40 cm across. There are many flower heads. They are mauve.
Shrub, up to 4 m high. Leaves petiolate, margins serrate, base cordate, thinly woolly below, petiole with a pair of deciduous, orbicular basal auricles. Heads with 3-7 flowers in rounded, corymbose panicles. Achenes hairy. Flowers pale mauve.
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