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Leaves concolorous, chartaceous-membranous, not stem-sheathing at the base; mostly 6–27 x 3.5–10 cm., broadly elliptic to broadly oblong-obovate, rounded to obtuse at the apex, sometimes subacute-apiculate, broadly cuneate below ± narrowing into a winged petiole-like midrib 0–30 mm. long, narrowly semi-amplexicaul sometimes subauriculate at the base; margins serrate to coarsely irregularly serrate, sometimes subentire; sparsely finely araneose-lanate on both surfaces, sometimes with scattered patent hairs on the upper surface; main nerves 10–12 on each side of the midrib.
Phyllaries dark-purple sometimes stramineous, appressed imbricate, rounded obtuse, scarious-membranous, margins broadly hyaline ± torn, glabrous, from c. 2 mm. long and ovate outside, increasing to c. 19 mm. long becoming linear inside; middle phyllaries up to c. 6 mm. wide and oblong-ovate; inner phyllaries narrower.
Florets many; corollas yellowish-white, up to c. 19 mm. long with a long slender tube abruptly dilated into a short cylindric deeply-lobed limb which exceeds the pappus and involucre, glabrous; corolla lobes c. 4 mm. long, linear.
Achenes to c. 7 mm. long, subfusiform-cylindric, obscurely ribbed, densely appressed hispid; pappus of copious fine barbellate setae c. 13 mm. long.
Capitula 3–31 in a racemose to subpaniculate arrangement, 1–5 on short racemose branches from bract axils, capitula stalks stout 1–50 mm. long.
Stems annual, usually solitary, simple, ± densely leafy towards the base, leafless above, somewhat compressed-angular, araneose-lanate.
An erect often subscapose suffrutex 50–80 cm. tall, from a woody rootstock with many thong-like roots.
Involucres mostly 13–20 x 5–12 mm., hardly spreading, narrowly cylindric.
