Shrub 50–130 cm high; branches diverging at 30–90º; stem wings entire, 2.5–6 (–8) mm wide. Leaves elliptic, ovate or obovate, 37–70 mm long, 20–43 mm wide, 1.6–2.3 times longer than wide; glandular hairs absent; upper surface moderately bullate; lanate hairs very dense on both surfaces. Inflorescences spiciform or cylindrical, 35–105 mm long, 17–30 mm wide at anthesis, 2.2–4.3 times longer than wide; peduncles 3–40 mm long. Longest inner bracts 5.3–9.2 mm long; many cilia visible. Female florets 25–58; corolla 3.7–7.5 mm long. Hermaphrodite floret 1 (rarely 2); corolla 4.0–6.5 mm long; corolla lobes 0.6–1.0 mm long, with globose sessile glands absent and eglandular trichomes absent. Achenes 1.1–1.3 mm long, with 25–50 or more twin hairs. Pappus 3.5–6.9 mm long.
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