Subshrubs, 1-2 m tall. Leaves alternate; petiole 3-5(-10) mm; leaf blade broadly ovate or ovate, 5-8 × 4-7 cm, papery, 3-veined, both surfaces densely pubescent, base broadly cordate, subauriculate, sometimes truncate, margin sparsely denticulate, apex acute or obtuse. Capitula solitary or 2 or 3 in glomerulate synflorescences, axillary, 9-12-flowered; peduncle 4-11 mm; involucre narrowly campanulate, 1.1-1.3 cm × 6-8 mm; phyllaries 7-or 8-seriate, abaxially densely sericeous, apices obtuse or acute (inner phyllaries), outer phyllaries broadly ovate, 1-3 mm, inner linear-oblong, 9-10 mm. Florets bisexual, corollas tubular, ca. 1.8 cm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes linear, unequal. Achenes subfusiform, 5-6 mm, sericeous, ribbed; pappus light brownish, 1.1-1.4 cm. Fl. Jul-Oct.
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