Erect subshrubs to 1-2 m tall?; stems terete, densely hirsute. Leaves opposite; blades papyraceous, broadly ovate, to 12 cm long and 8 cm wide, the base broadly cuneate, the margins doubly serrate, the apex distinctly short-acuminate, the upper surface with veins short-hirsute, the lower surface with veins and veinlets hirsute, the venation pinnate, the secondary veins with ca. 5 pairs, ascending at 450 angles; petioles 3-4 cm long. Inflorescence a loose cyme, the ultimate branches 1-20 mm long, short-hirsute. Heads mostly in clusters of 3, ca. 6 mm high, with 20-25 florets; involucral bracts ca. 40, imbricated, strongly unequal, in 4 series, narrowly oblong, the apices obtuse, the outer surface with ca. 3 striae, puberulous above; receptacle strongly convex, without parenchyma, pilose; corolla white, ca. 3 mm long, tubular below, narrowly funnelform above, glabrous below and within, the lobes triangular, ca. 0.4 mm long and wide with cluster of hairs on outer surface. Achenes ca. 2 mm long, glabrous; pappus with ca. 25 bristles, ca. 2.5 mm long, the apex distinctly dilated, the apical cells subacute.
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