Shrub or tree up to 6 m. tall; branchlets grooved, angular, tomentose. Lvs 3-10 × 2-4 cm. including petiole up to 5 mm. long, elliptic-to ovate-oblong, coriac., glab. above, with thin appressed white to buff tomentum below, margins strongly undulate to almost flat. Capitula sessile, fascicled on slender branches of corymb; phyll. erect, imbricate, forming a narrow involucre, outer short, glab. or nearly so, ± viscid-glandular; florets solitary, tubular, perfect, whitish; achenes 2-3·5 mm. long, hardly compressed, slender, pubescent to pilose; pappus-hairs subequal, 3-6 mm. long.
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