Shrub 35–150 cm high; branches diverging at 20–45º; stem wings serrate, 2.5–8 mm wide. Leaves elliptic, ovate or broadly lanceolate, 20–82 mm long, 8–28 mm wide, 2.1–4.3 times longer than wide; glandular hairs present or absent; upper surface not or scarcely bullate; lanate hairs absent to dense on upper surface, sparse to very dense on lower surface. Inflorescences ellipsoid or cylindrical, rarely almost globose, 14–52 mm long, 13–17 mm wide at anthesis, 1.1–3.5 times longer than wide; peduncles 0–15 mm long. Longest inner bracts 3.9–6.3 mm long; many cilia visible. Female florets 29–52; corolla 2.8–4.2 mm long. Hermaphrodite floret solitary; corolla 3.6–4.7 mm long; corolla lobes 0.4–0.6 mm long, with globose sessile glands present and eglandular trichomes absent. Achenes 0.7–1.0 mm long, with 25–50 twin hairs. Pappus 2.8–4.5 mm long.
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