Shrubs, 60–250 cm. Stems lanate-tomentose. Leaves subsessile or subpetiolate; blades obovate, 40–140 × 10–50 mm, subcoriaceous, bases not clasping, margins serrulate to subentire, abaxial faces densely lanate-tomentose, adaxial densely short-tomentose. Heads in thyrsiform to subcorymbiform heads. Involucres campanulate, 10–13 × 10–13 mm. Phyllaries erect, oblong, apices acute, faces densely woolly. Ray florets 6–14, fertile; corollas shorter than involucre, inconspicuous. Disc florets 30–40; corollas 8–10 mm. Cypselae 3–4 mm, canescent. 2n = 10.