Shrub 60–120 cm high; branches diverging at 20–50º; stem wings entire, 1.5–4.5 mm wide. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate, 30–65 mm long, 10–20 mm wide, 2.6–4.6 times longer than wide; glandular hairs absent; upper surface moderately bullate; lanate hairs moderately dense to very dense on upper surface, dense to very dense on lower surface. Inflorescences ellipsoid, 14–28 mm long, 12–15 mm wide at anthesis, 1.2–2.1 times longer than wide; peduncles 0–20 mm long. Longest inner bracts 3.5–4.8 mm long; many cilia visible. Female florets 18–24; corolla 2.5–3.4 mm long. Hermaphrodite floret solitary; corolla 2.9–3.7 mm long; corolla lobes 0.5–0.8 mm long, with globose sessile glands present and eglandular trichomes absent. Achenes 0.9–1.2 mm long, with 25–50 or more twin hairs. Pappus 2.5–3.5 mm long.
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