Epiphytic shrubs to 4 m tall; stems terete, with faint striations, glabrous. Leaves opposite; blades slightly fleshy, ovate to elliptical, to 16 cm long and 7 cm wide, the base. broadly cuneate, the margins entire, the apex sharply acute, the surfaces glabrous, the venation pinnate, the secondary veins prominent; petioles to 6 cm long, glabrous. Inflorescence a corymbose panicle, to 12 cm wide and 12 cm high, the ultimate branches ca. 5 mm long, densely puberulous. Heads ca. 1 cm high, with ca. 18-28 florets; involucral bracts ca. 25-28, unequal, imbricate, in 3-4 series, the outer series ovate to narrowly oblong, mostly 2-4 mm long, scarcely puberulous, the inner series to 7 mm long, lanceolate with often irregularly laciniate margins, glabrous; receptacle minutely puberulous; corolla white, ca. 5 mm long, narrowly funnelform with hairs on inner surface, few hairs on outer surface, the lobes less than half again as long as wide; style base enlarged, glabrous. Achenes prismatic, densely puberulous; carpopodium distinct, the cells small in many series; pappus of ca. 30-35 scabrous bristles, mostly ca. 5.5 mm long, the apical cells acute.
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