Succulent herb or shrub, erect or subscandent and 60–220 cm high; stems fleshy, glabrous, with prominent leaf-scars.. Leaves succulent, obovate, 4.5–8 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, cuneate into a petioloid base, margins entire, apex obtuse, glabrous.. Capitula discoid, numerous in long-stalked terminal corymbs of subumbelliform cymes; involucre cylindrical, 8–10 mm long, ± 2 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus 1–2, subulate-lanceolate, 1 mm long; phyllaries 3–4, yellow, 8–10 mm long, glabrous.. Ray florets absent; disc florets white, corolla 9.5–12.5 mm long, tube glabrous, slightly expanded in upper part, lobes 1 mm long.. Achenes 3.2–4.2 mm long, hairy; pappus 9–18 mm long, white.
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