Shrubs, 0.5-1.5 m tall. Leaves on long shoots alternate, petiole base expanded, very short, leaf blade flat, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5-8 × 2-5 mm, both surfaces subglabrous, base rounded, margin entire or 2-dentate near middle part, apex attenuate; leaves on branchlets tufted, 4-6, sessile, dimorphic, one form flat, oblong to spatulate-oblong, 4-9 × 1-1.7 mm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially white stellate hairy, base attenuate, margin entire, slightly revolute, apex obtuse or rounded, other form strongly revolute, terete or awl-shaped, 2-5 × 0.7-1.2 mm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially densely sericeous, base attenuate, margin entire, strongly revolute, apex obtuse or mucronate. Capitula solitary, terminal on branches, sessile, 7-10 mm in diam., 5-or 6-flowered; involucre cylindric, ca. 6 mm in diam.; phyllaries 6-or 7-seriate, margin ciliate, outer phyllaries ovate, 1.5-2 mm, inner 9-12 mm. Florets bisexual, corollas tubular, 1-1.3 cm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes oblong-lanceolate. Achenes terete, ca. 6 mm, densely white villous; pappus dark white, ca. 1.1 cm. Fl. Jun-Sep.
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