Shrub or tree up to 7 m. tall; branchlets, infl.-branchlets, petioles and lvs below clad in dense soft white to buff tomentum. Lvs ± 5-15 × 5 cm. including stout petiole up to 4 cm. long; coriac., broad elliptic-ovate to oblong, acute, repand, irregularly and rather distantly coarsely dentate. Capitula ∞, up to 1 cm. diam., in large panicles; florets 12-24 per capitulum; ray-florets ∞, broad, white to yellowish; phyll. woolly-pilose on back, subacute, ovate-lanceolate, in several series. Achenes 1-2 mm. long, glab. or nearly so except at tips, compressed, angled; pappus-hairs subequal, up to 4 mm. long.
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