A stout, much branched shrub, about 150 cm high. Branchlets slender, clothed with spreading, grey pubescence. Leaves closely set, 1-2 cm long: lamina erect-spreading, almost entirely open-backed, ovate, acute, apiculate, rounded, subcordate or cordate at base, slightly incurved, widely convex above, narrowly revolute at the margins, with prominent midrib and secondary nerves on the tomentose lower surface; upper surface closely and minutely tubercled, at first silky-pilose, at length glabrous: petiole 1.5-2 mm long. Capitula solitary 0.-7-cm wide, depressed-hemisphaeric, subtended by several leaves and with several leafy bracts on the outer edge. Bracts of the inner flowers 1.5-3.5 mm long, obovate or oblong, acute, concave on the inner side, villous on the outer. Bracteoles 2, about as long, linear, villous on the outer surface. Flowers 3.5-5 mm long, on a very short stipe furnished with a few straight hairs: calyx-tube 1-1.5 mm deep, cyathiform, sparsely tomentose on the upper half or all over the outer surface: sepals 1.25-1.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, flattened at the base of the inner surface, thence angular-convex to the apex, densely tomentose on the outer surface. Petals inserted on the upper half of the tube well within the mouth, 0.5-1 mm long: lamina orbicular, deeply concave, cucullate: claw as long, linear or narrowly cuneate. Anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary distinctly narrower than the tube, tubular-obconic, somewhat fluted, glabrous. Style 0.5-0.75 mm long, columnar, trigonous. Stigma divided into 3 rounded lobes.
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Stout, closely leafy, much-branched shrub to 1.5 m. Leaves ovate, cordate at base, 10-20 mm long, margins slightly revolute, tomentose and prominently veined beneath. Flowers in solitary capitula, subsessile, white.
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