Scandent subshrub to 8 m long; stems white-tomentose, glabrescent, glandular.. Leaves membranous, dark green above, ovate, 5–13 cm long, 3–11 cm wide, base cordate (the incision acute), margins sinuate-denticulate with glandular-apiculate teeth, apex acute to abruptly acuminate, glabrous to lanate above, densely white-tomentose beneath; palmately 5–7-veined from the base; petiole 1–8 cm long.. Capitula in dense terminal and upper axillary paniculoid corymbs, disciform; stalk of individual heads 3.5–9 mm long; involucre obconic, to 6 mm long and 2–3 mm wide; bracts of calyculus 3–7, ± 3 mm long; phyllaries 7–10, oblong-lanceolate, 4–5.5 mm long, acute to acuminate, tomentellous to glabrous.. Florets ± 12, outer female, inner hermaphrodite, corollas 5–8.2 mm long, pale yellow to almost white; lobes 1.2–1.5 mm long.. Achenes cylindrical, 1–2.4 mm long, ribbed, glabrous; pappus 5–11 mm long, creamy white.. Fig. 129 (page 615).
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